Nutrition Translation Award Competition

Finalist(s)

• CA

  Carmen Arrington, PhD

  Postdoctoral Researcher
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
  Davis, California, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
• MR

  Minakshi Raj, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Urbana, Illinois, United States

  Disclosure(s): McCormick Science Institute: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
• MG

  Mariola Grez-Capdeville, PhD

  Indiana University Indianapolis
  Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
• 

  Hila Zelicha, RD PHD

  Post-Doctoral Fellow
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, California, United States

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

Organized by ASN's Nutrition Translation Research Interest Section, this award competition provides an opportunity for early-career scientists and clinicians to demonstrate how their research can be translated to a defined audience to improve public health and/or health outcomes.

Finalists include:

• Carmen Arrington, PhD, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  Genetic Risk, Diet, and Lifestyle: Differential Contributions to DXA Body Composition Phenotypes in a Nutritional Cohort
• Mariola Grez-Capdeville, PhD, Indiana University Indianapolis
  GOS Regulates Bone Mineralization and Ossification Pathways in Intestinal Myeloid Cells: Novel Insights Into the Gut-Bone Axis in Estrogen Deficiency
• Minakshi Raj, PhD, MPH, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Evaluating Dietitians’ Perspectives on Expanding the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to Include Nutrition-Related Caregiver Training Services
• Hila Zelicha, RD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
  Effect of Green Mediterranean Diet on Serum Folate and Its Interaction With Genetic Variance in Folate Metabolism: The DIRECT PLUS 18-Month Dietary RCT