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Dr. Meghan Azad and Dr. Alain Labrique (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) were awarded a Grand Challenges "Call to Action" Grant form the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. There project will explore whether prelacteals (ritual foods given to newborns) affect the gut microbiome in Bangladeshi infants.  We are delighted to announce that soon-to-be Dr. Merilee Brockway is joining the Azad Lab as a postdoctoral fellow this summer. Merilee has been awarded the Molly Towell Perinatal Research Foundation Fellowship to study a new strategy for matching donor milk with recipient infants in the NICU. Congratulations, Merilee!   The Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) program is a collaboration between the University of Manitoba and University of Victoria that trains graduate students in different disciplines to translate complex health data to monitor and prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases. This year students will have the opportunity to work with the CHILD Cohort Study data that has been collected from participating families across Canada.
CLICK HERE to read more.  Dr. Azad was interviewed by The New York Times to discuss breastfeeding, breast milk, and the infant gut microbiome. CLICK HERE to read more.
The Azad lab spent Sunday at the Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba's annual Teddy Bears' Picnic teaching the kids about breastfeeding in the "I Want to be a Scientist" tent.  New publication "Integrated Analysis of Human Milk Microbiota With Oligosaccharides and Fatty Acids in the CHILD Cohort" from the AZAD lab in the New Frontiers in Nutrition journal.
Click HERE to view the article.  Check out the video below that features research from the AZAD lab and other CHILD study researchers. Join us on a journey into the world of a baby’s gut microbiome. Meet some microbial superheroes and learn about how discoveries from the CHILD Cohort Study are helping us to understand allergies, asthma, obesity, and everyday health and wellbeing, especially during childhood.   Click HERE to read the article about the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Cohort Study.
 New publication "Infant Feeding and the Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease in the CHILD Cohort: Role of Human Milk Bioactives and Gut Microbiota" from Dr. Azad in Breastfeeding Medicine.
Click HERE to view the article.  The University of Manitoba will be receiving more than $1.1 million in support of seven projects funded by CFI, Dr. Meghan Azad and Dr. Nathan Nickel's project "Manitoba Interdisciplinary Lactation Center (MILC): a provincial infant feeding database and human milk biorepository" is one of the successfully funded projects.
Click HERE to read about all seven projects. |
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