Clinical Emerging Leaders Award Competition, Organized by the ASN Medical Nutrition Council

This award competition promotes interest in clinical and human nutrition among those in postgraduate programs.

The ASN Foundation thanks Lonza for supporting this award competition.

This year's award competition finalists include:

• Julie Gervis, MS, JM USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
  Association of Taste-Related Genes With Diet Quality and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Among Community-Dwelling Adults – The Framingham Heart Study
  
• Rebecca Kelly, MBBS, BMedSci(Hons), MPH, University of Oxford
  Associations Between Types and Sources of Dietary Carbohydrates and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in 110,505 UK Biobank Study Participants
  
• Sarah Kirschner, MS, Center for Translational Research in Aging & Longevity, Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A&M University
  Plasma Short-Chain Fatty Acid (SCFA) Concentrations Are Related to Cognition and Adipose Tissue Mass but Not Muscle Function in Older Adults
  
• Clarinda Sutanto, BS, National University of Singapore
  Impact of 5-Hydroxytryptophan Supplementation on Gut Microbiota Composition of Older Adults With Different Sleep Status in Singapore: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  
• Huiying Yang, Emory University
  Median Urinary Iodine Concentration in School-Age Children Does Not Consistently Vary by Inflammation or Sociodemographic Factors: Multi-Country Analysis From BRINDA