AES Researcher Daiva Nielsen Receives ASN's Mead Johnson Award
Daiva Nielsen, Associate Professor in the School of Human Nutrition and Scientific Director of the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (CNRU), has been selected to receive the Mead Johnson Award from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) and the ASN Foundation.听
The Mead Johnson Award is given to an investigator for a single outstanding piece of nutrition research, or a series of papers on the same subject,听accomplished听within ten years of postgraduate training. It is one of ASN's Early Career Investigator Awards, a category recognizing professionals whose impact extends beyond research excellence to include contributions to the nutrition profession through community service, teaching, innovation, and advancement of the field. The award is supported by the Mead Johnson Pediatric Nutrition Institute.听
Professor听Nielsen, who also holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Ingestive Behaviour, specializes in听investigating听complex contributors听to听eating听behaviour, including听the interplay听between听genetics,听sensory听perception, and听neurocognitive factors.听Her work also explores听the role听of听food environment听exposures听in听shaping听diet and risk factors听for听cardiometabolic听disease.听One of the听goals of her research program is to improve the听design and delivery of听health听behaviour-change听interventions at multiple levels听through training听the next generation of听nutrition and听dietetics听professionals.听
Prof听Nielsen will be formally recognized at NUTRITION 2026, ASN's flagship annual meeting, taking place July 25鈥�28 in National Harbor, Maryland.听
Find out more about Professor Nielsen鈥檚 work and the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (CNRU)听here听