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Faculty of Health Sciences

Centre for Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Research (MODR)

Quarterly Highlights: July to September 2021

In the News

Gregory Steinberg joined Gill Deacon on CBC’s Here and Now to discuss an important study highlighting energy expenditure across the lifecourse. Listen to the segment titled “New research questions everything we know about our metabolism” from August 13.

Celebrations and Successes

Congratulations to Dr. Fahd Alshammri – PGY3 in the Department of Pediatrics- on being award a 1 year CPEG Fellow Project Grant. His project, supervised by Katherine Morrison, is titled “Factors associated with the development of dyslipidemia among pediatric patients with diabetes: A single center-based study”

Congratulations to Vivian Vaughan Williams, Research Assistant in Katherine Morrison’s on 15 years of service at McMaster University! Viv has been instrumental in executing many clinical studies like CANPWR, Family stress, and MIREC

Laiba Jamshed – PhD candidate Holloway Lab – won a University of Saskatchewan Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) PhD Presentation Award at the Laurentian & Prairie Northern Chapter of the Society of Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Annual General meeting & conference.

Congratulations to Genevieve Perono & Sergio Raez-Villanueva – Holloway Lab – for receiving funding awards from the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s program (CGS-M).

Congratulations to Rahul Chanchlani on being appointed Associate Professor in the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Pediatrics


Rahul Chanchlani and MODR co-investigators Gita Wahi, Russ DeSouza, and Joyce Obeid were successful in the CIHR Spring Project Grant competition! Their study will derive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) normative data among South Asian children in ON & BC and also look at the association of diet, physical activity, and sleep.

Congratulations to Jon Schertzer on his CIHR Spring Project Grant success! The project, led by CO-PI Mahla Poudineh from the University of Waterloo (IDEATION Lab) is titled “Moving beyond blood glucose with continuous multiplexed hormone measurement”. They are building next-generation continuous insulin monitors that can also measure other hormones, and testing them in models of obesity and diabetes.


Gita Wahi & Russ DeSouza received funding from @CIHR_IRSC for their project “10-year Follow-Up of the South Asian Birth Cohort: Understanding early life determinants of cardiovascular disease”. Other MODR investigators working on this project include Sonia Anand, Rahul Chanclani, Katherine Morrison and Zubin Punthakee. This project is a continuation of the START study which began in 2011. The aim of this study is to understand what childhood health behaviours are associated with the development of risk factors for metabolic syndrome. This information will enable the design of prevention interventions in this high risk population.

Presentations

Constantine Samaan was invited by Diabetes Canada as a contributing expert to a live webinar about the safe return to school for children living with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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