Yvonne Lamers
PhD
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Canada Research Chair in Human Nutrition and Vitamin Metabolism
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Tappauf, N. and Lamers, Y. and Sham, H.P. and Piper, H.G.
DOI: 10.1002/jpen.2742American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Shertukde, S.P. and Padmanabha, R. and Chung, S.T. and Gaudichon, C. and Jones, K.S. and Kelly, P. and Krebs, N.F. and Kurpad, A. and Lamers, Y. and Lopez-Teros, V. and Melse-Boonstra, A. and Pereira, F.C. and Prado, C.M. and Roberts, S.B. and Shepherd, J. and Winichagoon, P. and Wells, J.C.K. and Loechl, C.U. and Hoffman, D.J.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.06.003Progress in Community Health Partnerships Research Education and Action
Sidhu, A. and Singh, S. and Battersby, L. and Puri, N. and Condin, C. and Newman, M. and Nagra, R. and Bains, D. and Garg, A. and Shah, S. and Bajwa, L. and Jassar, S. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1353/CPR.2025.A956596International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Ratelle, M. and Phillipps, B. and Skinner, K. and Lamers, Y. and Melo, L. and Laird, B. and Andrew, L. and Yakeleya, J. and Bougie, A. and Jensen, K. and Simmons, D.
DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2024.2438434Proceedings
Ryan Barlow and Helene McNulty and Catherine Hughes and Kristina Pentieva and Geraldine Horigan and Yvonne Lamers and Mary Ward
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings202309143608 / 2024
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
Lee, B.H. and Cevizci, M. and Lieblich, S.E. and Ibrahim, M. and Wen, Y. and Eid, R.S. and Lamers, Y. and Duarte-Guterman, P. and Galea, L.A.M.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.05.019Journal of Nutrition
Evanchuk, J.L. and Kozyrskyj, A. and Vaghef-Mehrabani, E. and Lamers, Y. and Giesbrecht, G.F. and Letourneau, N. and Aghajafari, F. and Dewey, D. and Leung, B. and Bell, R.C. and Field, C.J.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.10.029Proceedings
Amy Tan and Maria F. Mujica-Coopman and Nicole Letourneau and Deborah Dewey and Gerald Giesbrecht and Catherine Field and Yvonne Lamers
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings202309110012 / 2023
Nutrition Bulletin
Caffrey, A. and Lamers, Y. and Murphy, M.M. and Letourneau, N. and Irwin, R.E. and Pentieva, K. and Ward, M. and Tan, A. and Rojas-G{\'o}mez, A. and Santos-Calder{\'o}n, L.A. and Canals-Sans, J. and Leung, B.M.Y. and Bell, R. and Giesbrecht, G.F. and Dewey, D. and Field, C.J. and Kobor, M. and Walsh, C.P. and McNulty, H.
DOI: 10.1111/nbu.12611bioRxiv
Lee, B.H. and Cevizci, M. and Lieblich, S.E. and Ibrahim, M. and Wen, Y. and Eid, R.S. and Lamers, Y. and Duarte-Guterman, P. and Galea, L.A.M.
DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.12.548731bioRxiv
Duarte-Guterman, P. and Richard, J.E. and Lieblich, S.E. and Eid, R.S. and Lamers, Y. and Galea, L.A.M.
DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.24.529879Open Biology
Duarte-Guterman, P. and Richard, J.E. and Lieblich, S.E. and Eid, R.S. and Lamers, Y. and Galea, L.A.M.
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.230217The Journal of Nutrition
Yvonne Lamers
DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxac17911 / 2022
Clinical Epigenetics
Ondi?ov{\'a}, M. and Irwin, R.E. and Thursby, S.-J. and Hilman, L. and Caffrey, A. and Cassidy, T. and McLaughlin, M. and Lees-Murdock, D.J. and Ward, M. and Murphy, M. and Lamers, Y. and Pentieva, K. and McNulty, H. and Walsh, C.P.
DOI: 10.1186/s13148-022-01282-yAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Jarrett, H. and McNulty, H. and Hughes, C.F. and Pentieva, K. and Strain, J.J. and McCann, A. and McAnena, L. and Cunningham, C. and Molloy, A.M. and Flynn, A. and Hopkins, S.M. and Horigan, G. and O'Connor, C. and Walton, J. and McNulty, B.A. and Gibney, M.J. and Lamers, Y. and Ward, M.
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqac240The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Malia SQ Murphy and Katherine A Muldoon and Hauna Sheyholislami and Nathalie Behan and Yvonne Lamers and Natalie Rybak and Ruth Rennicks White and Alysha LJ Harvey and Laura M Gaudet and Graeme N Smith and Mark C Walker and Shi Wu Wen and Amanda J MacFarlane
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqaa40705 / 2021
bioRxiv
Qiu, W. and Go, K.A. and Lamers, Y. and Galea, L.A.M.
DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.11.430473British Journal of Nutrition
Tan, A. and Sinclair, G. and Mattman, A. and Vallance, H.D. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114521000581Frontiers in Nutrition
Williams, B.A. and Mayer, C. and McCartney, H. and Devlin, A.M. and Lamers, Y. and Vercauteren, S.M. and Wu, J.K. and Karakochuk, C.D.
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.642306Scientific reports
da Silva MT and Mujica-Coopman MF and Figueiredo ACC and Hampel D and Vieira LS and Farias DR and Shahab-Ferdows S and Allen LH and Brito A and Lamers Y and Kac G and S Vaz J
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77231-7 PubMed: 3321461311 / 2020
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Maruvada P and Stover PJ and Mason JB and Bailey RL and Davis CD and Field MS and Finnell RH and Garza C and Green R and Gueant JL and Jacques PF and Klurfeld DM and Lamers Y and Zappal G
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqaa259 PubMed: 3302270411 / 2020
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Larisse Melo and Clementine Ng and Ricky Tsang and Anubhav Pratap Singh and David Kitts and Yvonne Lamers
DOI: 10.1017/s002966512000212806 / 2020
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Amy Tan and Mohammad Zubair and Chia-ling Ho and Liadhan McAnena and Helene McNulty and Mary Ward and Yvonne Lamers
DOI: 10.1017/s002966512000607206 / 2020
Current developments in nutrition
Mujica M and Lewis E and Jacobs R and Letourneau N and Bell R and Field C and Lamers Y
05 / 2020
Current developments in nutrition
Montgomery S and Rossen L and Zibrik D and Dyer R and Oberlander T and Lamers Y
05 / 2020
Current developments in nutrition
Montgomery S and Ho G and Rossen L and Zibrik D and Dyer R and Oberlander T and Lamers Y
05 / 2020
Current developments in nutrition
St-Cyr C and Lamers Y and Casey L and Saunders M and Sinclair G and Mattman A
05 / 2020
Current developments in nutrition
Williams B and McCartney H and Lamers Y and Vercauteren S and Wu J and Karakochuk C
05 / 2020
Current developments in nutrition
Rossen L and Montgomery S and Zibrik D and Dyer R and Oberlander T and Lamers Y
05 / 2020
Qiu W and Duarte-Guterman P and Eid RS and Go KA and Lamers Y and Galea LAM
DOI: 10.1101/2020.02.22.96002102 / 2020
Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Kvalsund, M. and Kayamba, V. and Kelly, P. and Birbeck, G.L. and Mwansa-Thurman, C. and Sommer, I.N. and Lamers, Y. and Gardiner, J. and Herrmann, D.N.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2019.116583Journal of Nutrition
Plumptre, L. and Tammen, S.A. and Sohn, K.-J. and Masih, S.P. and Visentin, C.E. and Aufreiter, S. and Malysheva, O. and Schroder, T.H. and Ly, A. and Berger, H. and Croxford, R. and Lamers, Y. and Caudill, M.A. and Choi, S.-W. and O'Connor, D.L. and Kim, Y.-I.
DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxz232Neuropharmacology
Qiu, W. and Duarte-Guterman, P. and Eid, R.S. and Go, K.A. and Lamers, Y. and Galea, L.A.M.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108174The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqz04708 / 2019
The Journal of Nutrition
DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxz08208 / 2019
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2018-133705 / 2019
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1017/S0029665118002781Nutrients
Moukarzel, S. and Wiedeman, A.M. and Soberanes, L.S. and Dyer, R.A. and Innis, S.M. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.3390/nu11123024Nutrients
Kocylowski, R. and Grzesiak, M. and Gaj, Z. and Lorenc, W. and Bakinowska, E. and Bara?kiewicz, D. and von Kaisenberg, C.S. and Lamers, Y. and Suliburska, J.
DOI: 10.3390/nu11020328Archives of Medical Science
Suliburska, J. and Kocy?owski, R. and Grzesiak, M. and Gaj, Z. and Chan, B. and Von Kaisenberg, C. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2018.78776American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Brosnan, J.T. and Plumptre, L. and Brosnan, M.E. and Pongnopparat, T. and Masih, S.P. and Visentin, C.E. and Berger, H. and Lamers, Y. and Caudill, M.A. and Malysheva, O.V. and O'Connor, D.L. and Kim, Y.-I.
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqz152Journal of Nutrition
Mujica-Coopman, M.F. and Tan, A. and Schroder, T.H. and Sinclair, G. and Vallance, H.D. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxz178American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Lamers, Y. and MacFarlane, A.J. and O'Connor, D.L. and Fontaine-Bisson, B.
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqy212Nutrients
Chebaya, P. and Karakochuk, C.D. and March, K.M. and Chen, N.N. and Stamm, R.A. and Kroeun, H. and Sophonneary, P. and Borath, M. and Shahab-Ferdows, S. and Hampel, D. and Barr, S.I. and Lamers, Y. and Houghton, L.A. and Allen, L.H. and Green, T.J. and Whitfield, K.C.
DOI: 10.3390/nu9030270BMJ Open
Quay, T.A.W. and Frimer, L. and Janssen, P.A. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014889Journal of Nutrition
Mujica-Coopman, M.F. and Franco-Sena, A.B. and Farias, D.R. and Vaz, J.S. and Brito, A. and Kac, G. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.116.239483British Journal of Nutrition
Schroder, T.H. and Sinclair, G. and Mattman, A. and Jung, B. and Barr, S.I. and Vallance, H.D. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114517002331Nutrients
Jeruszka-Bielak, M. and Isman, C. and Schroder, T.H. and Li, W. and Green, T.J. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.3390/nu9040317Journal of Nutrition
Visentin, C.E. and Masih, S.P. and Plumptre, L. and Schroder, T.H. and Sohn, K.-J. and Ly, A. and Lausman, A.Y. and Berger, H. and Croxford, R. and Lamers, Y. and Kim, Y.-I. and O'Connor, D.L.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.115.226845Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Cheong, M. and Xiao, H.Y. and Tay, V. and Karakochuk, C.D. and Liu, Y.A. and Harvey, S. and Lamers, Y. and Houghton, L.A. and Kitts, D.D. and Green, T.J.
DOI: 10.6133/apjcn.2016.25.1.08Clinical Biochemistry
Schroder, T.H. and Mattman, A. and Sinclair, G. and Vallance, H.D. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2016.03.007Nutrients
Ho, C.-L. and Quay, T.A.W. and Devlin, A.M. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.3390/nu8090538Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism
Quay, T.A.W. and Schroder, T.H. and Jeruszka-Bielak, M. and Li, W. and Devlin, A.M. and Barr, S.I. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2015-0200Journal of Nutrition
Karakochuk, C.D. and Whitfield, K.C. and Barr, S.I. and Lamers, Y. and Devlin, A.M. and Vercauteren, S.M. and Kroeun, H. and Talukder, A. and McLean, J. and Green, T.J.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.198945Journal of Nutrition
Schroder, T.H. and Quay, T.A.W. and Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.194829PLoS ONE
Gregory III, J.F. and Park, Y. and Lamers, Y. and Bandyopadhyay, N. and Chi, Y.-Y. and Lee, K. and Kim, S. and da Silva, V. and Hove, N. and Ranka, S. and Kahveci, T. and Muller, K.E. and Stevens, R.D. and Newgard, C.B. and Stacpoole, P.W. and Jones, D.P.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063544Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology
Yaremco, E. and Inglis, A. and Innis, S.M. and Hippman, C. and Carrion, P. and Lamers, Y. and Honer, W.G. and Austin, J.
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23144Journal of Nutrition
da Silva, V.R. and Rios-Avila, L. and Lamers, Y. and Ralat, M.A. and Midttun, O. and Quinlivan, E.P. and Garrett, T.J. and Coats, B. and Shankar, M.N. and Percival, S.S. and Chi, Y.-Y. and Muller, K.E. and Ueland, P.M. and Stacpoole, P.W. and Gregory III, J.F.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.113.180588Journal of Nutrition
Zhao, M. and Lamers, Y. and Ralat, M.A. and Coats, B.S. and Chi, Y.-Y. and Muller, K.E. and Bain, J.R. and Shankar, M.N. and Newgard, C.B. and Stacpoole, P.W. and Gregory III, J.F.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.163246Statistics in Medicine
Chi, Y.-Y. and Gribbin, M. and Lamers, Y. and Gregory, J.F. and Muller, K.E.
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4435Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e328349f9a7Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
Lamers, Y.
DOI: 10.1159/000332073Journal of Nutrition
Lamers, Y. and Coats, B. and Ralat, M. and Quinlivan, E.P. and Stacpoole, P.W. and Gregory, J.F.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.110.134197Folate in Health and Disease, Second Edition
Gregory, J.F. and da Silva, V.R. and Lamers, Y.
Journal of Nutrition
Lamers, Y. and Williamson, J. and Theriaque, D.W. and Shuster, J.J. and Gilbert, L.R. and Keeling, C. and Stacpoole, P.W. and Gregory, J.F.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.103580American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Lamers, Y. and O'Rourke, B. and Gilbert, L.R. and Keeling, C. and Matthews, D.E. and Stacpoole, P.W. and Gregory III, J.F.
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27747International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research
Brmswig, S. and Prinz-Langenohl, R. and Lamers, Y. and Tobolski, O. and Wintergerst, E. and Berthold, H.K. and Pietrzik, K.
DOI: 10.1024/0300-9831.79.2.61Journal of Nutrition
Lamers, Y. and Williamson, J. and Ralat, M. and Quinlivan, E.P. and Gilbert, L.R. and Keeling, C. and Stevens, R.D. and Newgard, C.B. and Ueland, P.M. and Meyer, K. and Fredriksen, A. and Stacpoole, P.W. and Gregory III, J.F.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.099184Journal of Nutrition
Nijhout, H.F. and Gregory, J.F. and Fitzpatrick, C. and Cho, E. and Lamers, K.Y. and Ulrich, C.M. and Reed, M.C.
DOI: 10.3945/jn.109.104265American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Lamers, Y. and Pietrzik, K.
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/87.5.1538The Journal of Nutrition
Yvonne Lamers and Jerry Williamson and Lesa R. Gilbert and Peter W. Stacpoole and Jesse F. Gregory
DOI: 10.1093/jn/137.12.2647American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Pietrzik, K. and Lamers, Y. and Brmswig, S. and Prinz-Langenohl, R.
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/86.5.1414American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Lamers, Y. and Prinz-Langenohl, R. and Brmswig, S. and Pietrzik, K.
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/84.1.156The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Yvonne Lamers and Reinhild Prinz-Langenohl and Rudolf Moser and Klaus Pietrzik
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/79.3.47303 / 2004
Vitamin B2 plays a crucial role in human development and health across the lifespan. Recently, an increase in vitamin B2 intake was suggested to having a reducing effect on blood pressure. In most countries, there is little or no knowledge about the vitamin B2 nutrition status of the population due to the lack of convenient blood indicators and assessment tools. Dietary records are the sole source of information for most countries; however these do not reflect the biochemical status of the population which is a better indicator of health effects. In this international and multidisciplinary project, we aim to develop accessible blood indicators for vitamin B2 status assessment and identify which most sensitively reflect dietary intakes and food sources of vitamin B2 in Irish and Canadian adults. We will also demonstrate an important health effect of vitamin B2 by investigating its role in modulating blood pressure via a novel gene-nutrient interactive effect. In summary, sub-optimal vitamin B2 status may be more widespread than is generally recognized across the developed world, because of the reliance on dietary data only in nutrition surveys, without blood indicator evidence. This project will address this gap by developing accessible vitamin B2 blood indicators for use in population surveys globally, and by demonstrating important functional, gene-nutrient and health effects of optimal vitamin B2 status in Canadian, Irish and UK cohorts.
JPI-HDHL Call "Biomarkers in Nutrition and Health;" CIHR Team Grant (PI: Yvonne Lamers)
Webpage: www.derive-riboflavin.com
B vitamins play an important role in brain development and function. Not only have previous studies observed an association between maternal folate status during pregnancy and cognitive performance in offspring, but optimal folate and related B-vitamin status may also prevent cognitive decline in later life. Epigenetics, which involves modifications to DNA without affecting the sequence, can influence gene expression and may be a possible mechanism linking B vitamins and brain outcomes. The EpiBrain project, a collaboration among research teams in Canada, United Kingdom and Spain, aims to investigate the nutrition-epigenome-brain relationship across the lifespan in hopes of improved understanding of the role of B vitamins, their effects on the epigenome and brain function in childhood and older age.
JPI-HDHL Call "Nutrition & the Epigenome;" CIHR Team Grant (Lead PI: Yvonne Lamers)
BCCHR Co-Investigator: Dr. Michael Kobor, Investigator at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
International Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Nicole Letourneau (University of Calgary), Dr. Helene McNulty (Ulster University, Northern Ireland), Dr. Michelle Murphy (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Early development during pregnancy and infancy, also described as the first 1000 days of life, is characterized by rapid growth and increased nutrient demands. Low vitamin status during this critical time period can impair fetal and infant growth and development, and predispose the child to potential long-term health consequences.
Maternal vitamin B12 status during pregnancy has been described to have a long-term impact on neonatal and infant vitamin B12 status. Vitamin B12, as well as folate, vitamin B6, and riboflavin, play key roles in the one-carbon metabolism crucial for DNA synthesis and methylation. Our research focuses on defining sensitive biomarkers of B-vitamin status in various stages of pregnancy and their association with infant vitamin status and growth indicators.
This project is in collaboration with Dr. Hilary Vallance, Director of the Newborn Screening Program in B.C. and Yukon, Dr. Graham Sinclair, Biochemical Geneticist, BC Newborn Screening Program at BC Children’s Hospital and Dr. Andre Mattman, Medical Biochemist at St. Paul’s Hospital.
Vitamin B12 deficiency in the infant develops in the first year of life and can lead to developmental delays. Screening for vitamin B12 deficiency is generally done by measuring serum (or plasma) total vitamin B12 concentrations. We recently developed a novel method for quantification of methylmalonic acid (MMA) in dried blood spots (DBS), which allows convenient and minimally invasive assessment of functional vitamin B12 status. The method is 10-fold more sensitive than currently existing screening test and able to quantify DBS MMA in ranges of vitamin B12 deficiency secondary to maternal deficiency. We estimated a reference interval for DBS MMA concentrations in healthy, term newborns (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27040901/). In light of the detrimental and potentially irreversible consequences of vitamin B12 deficiency, early diagnosis is crucial and ideally established for all newborns.
Vitamin B12 deficiency in early childhood can result in severe and permanent adverse health consequences; however, there is a lack of an accurate tool for vitamin B12 deficiency diagnosis in children. Blood vitamin B12 levels are evaluated against adult normal values, yet early consequences may occur before blood levels appear to be “abnormal”. Our research team recently developed a new method to measure a more sensitive marker of vitamin B12 deficiency. By comparing the new method with clinical vitamin B12 testing in blood of at-risk children, we aim to define levels of vitamin B12 deficiency that warrant early treatment.
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Linda Casey, Director of the BC Children’s Hospital Intestinal Rehabilitation Program (CHIRP).
Vitamin B6 is essential to mount an adequate immune response and to maintain a healthy nervous system. Although research shows that dietary intake of vitamin B6 among Canadians is low, no clear data exists as to whether Canadians are living with suboptimal or deficient biochemical vitamin B6 status. Suboptimal vitamin B6 status has been linked to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. Specifically, there is a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer and breast cancer, which puts women into special focus.
In two cross-sectional studies, we determined the prevalence and determinants of vitamin B6 deficiency and suboptimal vitamin B6 status in young adult women (aged 19-35 years) and older adult women (aged 51-70 years). We found a 12% prevalence (https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/8/9/538) of low vitamin B6 status in young adult women. Further, we identified relative dietary vitamin B6 intake and the use of vitamin B6 containing supplements to be positive predictors, and body mass index and South Asian ethnicity to be negative predictors of vitamin B6 status. The data on older adult women are currently being evaluated.
A mounting number of epidemiologic studies have shown that suboptimal vitamin status, the ‘grey zone’ between adequacy and deficiency, is associated with a higher risk of chronic diseases. Suboptimal vitamin B12 status for example has been associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as spina bifida, and faster cognitive decline in older adults. Suboptimal vitamin B6 status has been linked with cardiovascular diseases and cancer. We are interested in contributing to the understanding of the underlying mechanisms between inadequacy and disease development by studying the biochemical alterations in stages of suboptimal vitamin status using stable isotope tracer protocols. Our research will contribute to the understanding of the metabolic and physiologic consequences of suboptimal B-vitamin status and B-vitamin imbalance.
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We are pleased to congratulate the BC Children's and BC Women's investigators who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Spring 2019 competition. Our research community received nine new research and bridge grants totaling more than $5.8 million.
BC Children’s Hospital and University of British Columbia researchers, Dr. Michael Kobor and Dr. Yvonne Lamers, are leading two new international projects investigating the relationship between diet, the epigenome and health thanks to almost $900,000 in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
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