Nutrition Translation Award Competition, Organized by the ASN Nutrition Translation RIS in partnership with the Public Information Committee

This award competition provides an opportunity for early-career scientists and clinicians to demonstrate how their research can be translated to a defined audience to improve public health and/or health outcomes. The ASN Foundation thanks National Dairy Council for supporting this award competition.

This year's award competition finalists include:

• Emily Hill, PhD, RDN, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Foodomics Analysis of a Mediterranean Diet Reveals Food-Specific Compounds That Are Detected in Human Plasma
  
• Ezgi Özcan, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
  Varied Clinical Ketogenic Diets Elicit Both Shared and Unique Functional and Taxonomic Responses on the Human Gut Microbiome in Refractory Epilepsy
  
• Erin Posey, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
  Leucine Administration in Conjunction With Continuous Feeding Improves Lean Growth in a Preterm Piglet Model
  
• Sanjoy Saha, PhD, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
  A Novel Method to Assess Dietary Intake and Obtain Real-Time Dietary Adherence Data: A Pilot Study