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July 17, 2019
Congratulations to Social Exposome Cluster members Emily Jenkins and Crystal Karakochuk for winning MSFHR Scholar Awards!
Dr. Emily Jenkins (School of Nursing) and Dr. Crystal Karakochuk (Department of Food, Nutrition and Health) were announced as Scholar Award recipients from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), designed to help support early career researchers. The title of Dr. Jenkins'…
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July 17, 2019
Congratulations to the Social Exposome Cluster Trainee Research Day Travel Award winners!
On July 15th, 2019 we held the first Social Exposome Cluster Trainee Research Day. The day was a big success and included 20 presentations from undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students, as well as postdoctoral researchers who gave fantastic talks on a diverse range of topics. The day…
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May 14, 2019
SEC members awarded New Frontiers in Research Fund grant to study the social exposome, from society to cell
Congratulations to Social Exposome Cluster member Dr. Anne Gadermann, who has won a New Frontiers in Research Fund Exploration Award from the Government of Canada! The grant, titled "From Society to Cell: Exploring the Social Exposome to Reduce Inequalities in Child Health and Development in…
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May 1, 2019
New paper: Thinking bigger: How early life environmental exposures shape the gut microbiome and influence the development of asthma and allergic disease
Why are some children more likely than others to develop asthma and allergies? A new paper* from Dr. Stuart Turvey’s group reviews what we’ve learned so far, and looks to exposome research as a path forward to understand the connections between our environments, the microbes that live…
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April 10, 2019
Social Exposome Cluster members receive funding from the Jacobs Foundation!
Congratulations to Drs. Sara Mostafavi (Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia), Nadine Provençal (Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University), and Maria Aristizabal (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia and University of Toronto) for receiving funding from the…