Postdoctoral Research Award Competition

Finalist(s)

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  Alexa Barad, PhD, MS, RDN

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Stanford University
  Redwood City, California, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Kyle Busse, PhD, MPH (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Researcher
  University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Emily Hanselman, PhD, RDN

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Indiana University
  Bloomington, Indiana, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Rami Najjar, PhD

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Emory University
  Canton, Georgia, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Sumudu Rajakaruna, PhD

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  The Pennsylvania State University
  Howard, Pennsylvania, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
• RY

  Ravi Yadav, PhD

  Postdoctoral Research Associate
  Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA)
  College Station, Texas, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Organized by ASN's Early Career Nutrition Interest Group, this award competition challenges early career scientists and clinicians in nutrition by providing a juried abstract review and special oral session in which they compete in presenting their research findings.

Finalists include:

• Alexa Barad, PhD, MS, RDN, Stanford University, Department of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center and Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
  Genetic Modification of LDL-C Response to Change in Saturated Fat Intake: A Secondary Analysis of the DIETFITS Trial
• Kyle R. Busse, PhD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania
  Effects of Excluding Implausible Diet Data on Estimates of Diet-Disease Associations: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study
• Emily C. Hanselman, PhD, RDN, Indiana University
  Metabolites Measured over the First 7 Days of Life Predict Severe Morbidity or Mortality in Infants Born at <32 Weeks
• Rami S. Najjar, PhD, Emory University
  A Plant-based Diet Attenuates Hypertension-induced Renal Dysfunction and Hepatic Injury in Female Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats
• Sumudu S. Rajakaruna, PhD, Penn State: The Pennsylvania State University
  Microbial Complexity Shapes the Host Colonic Transcriptome in Response to Processed Diet Feeding
• Ravi Yadav, PhD, Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA)
  Citrulline Supplementation Increases Arginine Availability but Not Protein Anabolism in a Preterm Piglet Model