Career and Professional Development

Building Competitive Research Programs as Early Career Investigators – A Fireside Chat

Chair(s)

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  Candida Rebello, PhD, RD, LDN (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor and Director, Nutrition and Chronic Disease Program Laboratory
  Pennington Biomedical Research Center
  Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

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

Moderator(s)

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  Lynn Ferro, PhD, MPH

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
  National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
  Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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

Panelist(s)

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  David Church, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

  Disclosure(s): Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Consultant (Ongoing)
  Dairy Management, Inc.: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
  National Cattlemen’s Beef Association: Consultant (Terminated, October 1, 2024); Grant/Research Support (Terminated, October 1, 2024)
  National Pork Board: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing); Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Independent Contractor (including contracted research) (Ongoing)
  Soy Connection: Consultant (Ongoing)
  Vitality Blueprint: Consultant (Terminated, December 31, 2024)
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  Sarah Comstock, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  Michigan State University
  East Lansing, Michigan, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Matthew Landry, PhD, RDN, DipACLM (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  University of California, Irvine
  Irvine, California, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Saurabh Mehta, MBBS, ScD

  Founding Director and Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor
  Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health
  Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health
  Ithaca, New York, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Candida Rebello, PhD, RD, LDN (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor and Director, Nutrition and Chronic Disease Program Laboratory
  Pennington Biomedical Research Center
  Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

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