Graduate Student Research Award Competition

Finalist(s)

• MD

  Merina Dahal, Phd student

  Graduate Research Associate
  Arizona State University
  Tempe, Arizona, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
• JK

  Judy Kim, MSc

  PhD Candidate
  Nutrition
  University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
• 

  Nithya Krishnakumar, BS

  Graduate student
  University of California, Davis
  Sacramento, California, United States

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

  Zhongyao Li, MS, RD, PhD Candidate

  PhD Candidate
  Tufts University
  West Newton, Massachusetts, United States

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

  Lei Liu, MPH (he/him/his)

  biostatistian
  Emory University
  Decatur, Georgia, United States

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

  Jazmine Mensah, B.S. (she/her/hers)

  Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate
  University of Illinois Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois, United States

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

Organized by the NUTRITION 2025 Scientific Program Committee, this award competition tasks graduate students or medical students to hone their research presentation skills.

Finalists include:

• Merina Dahal, Arizona State University
  Direct Injection of Mirabegron Into Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue for Combating Obesity in Overweight and Obese Mice
• Judy Kim, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Impact of Weight Cycling on Metabolic Adaptation, GLP-1 Regulation and Epigenetic Modifications
• Nithya Krishnakumar, BS, University of California, Davis
  Diet Quality, Gut Microbiota, and Inflammation as Predictors of Fecal sIgA in Adults
• Zhongyao Li, RD, Tufts University
  Impact of Medically Tailored Meal Plus Nutrition Counseling on Diet Quality and Weight in Vulnerable Lung Cancer Patients: Results From NutriCare Randomized Controlled Trial
• Lei Liu, MPH, Emory University
  Anemia With and Without Iron Deficiency During Pregnancy and Association With Adverse Birth Outcomes: BRINDA Project
• Jazmine Mensah, University of Illinois Chicago
  Greenlining: Developing a Partnership for Community-Based Participatory Research to Promote Healthy Eating on the South Side of Chicago