Career and Professional Development

Postdoctoral Research Award Competition

Chair(s)

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  Liliana Aguayo, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

  Research Assistant Professor
  Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
  Atlanta, Georgia, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.

Finalist(s)

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  Ann Centner, PhD

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Florida State University
  Tallahassee, Florida, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Yun Chen, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Yale School of Nursing
  New Haven, Connecticut, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Aaron Hengist, PhD (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
  NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
  Bethesda, Maryland, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Emily Hill, PhD, RDN (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, Colorado, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Salin Raj Palayyan, PhD (he/him/his)

  Post Doctoral Research Associate
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

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

  Postdoctoral Research Associate
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York, 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 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:

• Ann M. Centner, PhD, Florida State University
  High-Fat Diet Amplifies Disease Phenotypes in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy
• Yun Chen, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
  Diabetes Risk Reduction Diet and Risk of Liver Cancer and Chronic Liver Disease Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study
• Aaron Hengist, PhD, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
  Unreliable Glycemic Responses to Duplicate Meals Measured by Continuous Glucose Monitors in Adults Without Diabetes
• Emily B. Hill, PhD, RDN, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Identification and Categorization of Ultra-Processed Food Intake in Clinical Trials Using Dietary Records and Nutrition Data System for Research
• Salin Raj Palayyan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Lingual Taste Papillae Contribute to Immune Surveillance
• Bonnie K. Patchen, PhD, RD, Cornell University
  Intersections of Omega-3 Fatty Acids, DNA Methylation and Lung Function: A Nutritional Epigenetic Study in the Genetic Epidemiology of COPD Study