Nutrition Graduate Student and Trainee Award
Supported by Haleon
2026 Oral Competition Finalists: Friday Presentations
Lulu X Pei, MSc - University of British Columbia
A high prevalence of iron deficiency in pregnant individuals in Vancouver, Canada: Inadequate iron intakes or diagnostic inaccuracy of ferritin thresholds to define iron status?
Asha De Silva, PhD Candidate - Memorial University of Newfoundland
Parenterally fed neonatal piglets require more dietary methionine to optimize transmethylation than for protein synthesis
Yabo Chen, RD - McGill University
Feasibility of multimodal prehabilitation to enhance glycemic levels before surgery in patients with colorectal cancer and A1C ≥ 5.7%
Nicholas Cheng, MSc - York University
Bone biomarker responses following an acute high-intensity exercise bout with differential post-exercise nutrition in young, healthy adults: a randomized crossover study
2026 Oral Competition Finalists: Saturday Presentations
Amy Tan, BSc, MSc - University of British Columbia
Folic acid supplement use and folate status in Canada, Northern Ireland and Spain: A transatlantic perspective from regions with different policies and practices
Connor D.C. Buchanan, PhD Candidate - University of Guelph
Estrous cycle uncovers novel lifelong n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid effects on duration and gene markers of Cip/Kip cell cycle regulators, DNA damage response and fatty acid composition of phospholipids in the young adult mouse mammary gland
Jacqueline Brown, MHSc - Ontario Tech University
The effect of a digital curriculum-based nutrition education intervention on elementary school children’s nutrition knowledge: the Foodbot Factory cluster randomized controlled trial
Amy Symington, MSc - University of Toronto
The dose-response investigation of docosahexaenoic acid (DRI-DHA) trial: a randomized control trial to determine the relationship of DHA supplementation on feedback inhibition of eicosapentaenoic acid elongation