Early Career Research Award Competition

Chair(s)

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  Lauren O'Connor, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

  Nutrition and Health Program Lead
  Texas A&M Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Evidence Center
  Germantown, Maryland, United States

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Finalist(s)

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  Shannon Conrey, PhD, MS

  Assistant Professor
  Case Western Reserve University
  Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  Institute for Global Nutrition and Department of Nutrition
  University of California, Davis
  Kansas City, Missouri, United States

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  Samaneh Farsijani, PhD, RD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  University of Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Anthony Wang, n/a (he/him/his)

  Instructor/Fellow
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, Colorado, United States

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  Dongqing Wang, PhD, MPH (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  George Mason University
  Fairfax, Virginia, 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 faculty, 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:

• Shannon Conrey, PhD, MS, Case Western Reserve University
  Human Milk Lead Levels in a Cohort of Midwestern Infants: Preliminary Results From the MOM2CHild Study
• Samaneh Farsijani, PhD, RD, University of Pittsburgh
  Association of Eating Window With Mortality Among US Adults: Insights From a Nationally Representative Study
• Sika Kumordzie, PhD, University of California, Davis
  Household Use of Multiple Micronutrient-Fortified Bouillon Cubes Increased Iron Status Among Children 2–5 Y of Age in Northern Ghana: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Anthony Wang, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Maternal Prenatal Traits and Child Hepatic Fat Are Associated With Umbilical Cord Blood DNA Methylation in the Healthy Start Cohort
• Dongqing Wang, PhD, MPH, George Mason University
  The Effects of Prenatal High-Dose Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation on B Vitamins in Human Milk: a Randomized Controlled Trial in Tanzania