School of Human Nutrition Student Wins Prix 脡toiles Montantes Yves-Deshaies du R茅seau CMDO
Macdonald Campus student Meryem Talbo (BSc(NutrSc)'17, MSc(NutrSc)'19; pictured above on the right) has been awarded the , revealed during the Joint Scientifique meeting of the CMDO network and the Soci茅t茅 Qu茅b茅coise de Lipidologie, de Nutrition et de M茅tabolisme (SQLNM) held in February. At the event, Meryem also presented recent findings from the Canadian Registry for people with type 1 diabetes ().
Meryem is a registered dietitian and currently in her final year of a PhD in nutrition in 看片视频's School of Human Nutrition, supervised by聽Dr. Anne-Sophie Brazeau. Meryem's current work and research are focused on better understanding the lived experience of people with type 1 diabetes, specifically related to hypoglycemia and hypoglycemia fear. Meryem aims to generate evidence to improve availability and access to needed therapies while championing a person- and patient-centered approach to both health care and research.
Created in April 2012 by the Fonds de Recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Sant茅 (FRQS), the Research network on cardiometabolic health, diabetes and obesity聽(R茅seau CMDO) has the mission of developing research of excellence in these areas, of transmitting knowledge and to promote knowledge to promote the quality of life of Quebecers.聽The network's Yves-Deshaies Rising Stars Prize competition is aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from Quebec. The objective of the award is to help students, whose applications could be competitive, to increase their chances of success for a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship or a Banting Postdoctoral Scholarship.