OPPORTUNITY: CHILD seeks an enthusiastic, early-career professional with relevant training to serve as Scientific Director of this leading Canadian cohort study. #dohad #microbiome #breastfeeding #asthma #allergy

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CHILD families: Take action on your 12/13-year CHILD visit, questionnaires & samples to earn entries into draws for great PRIZES in our Great Winter Clinic Giveaway!!!

Info: childstudy.ca/giveaway-2024/

DEADLINE IN 2 WEEKS: the 2024 Sears Undergraduate Summer Studentship provides up to $6K to a student working on a research project using CHILD data. #DOHaD

Apply before March 15, 2024: childstudy.ca/sears-award/

All youth participating in CHILD are invited to a Virtual Spring Camp (with an Escape Room & Prizes!) in March 2024 & are encouraged to join the CHILD Youth Council.

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Canadian youth: get involved with child & youth health issues by joining the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH) The Sandbox Project

Info: sandboxproject.ca/ycrh-home

🔊 New Paper from the #THRiVElab & CHILD Cohort Study!

1462 CHILD families joined our study about the #COVID19 pandemic's direct & indirect effects on health & wellbeing... 🧵

We have #somuchdata - and we'd love you to use it!

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Thank you CIHR Research Manitoba & COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) for funding this work.
And most importantly - thanks to our CHILD Cohort Study Families - true Research Champions! 🎶🌎🏆
youtu.be/yU-iLnQTANs

👋👋Hey Genome Canada and GenomeBC!
That research of ours on the #microbiome and childhood #allergies that you supported has been featured by in the latest edition of Scientific American.
scientificamerican.com/article/helpfu…
Scientific American Timothy Caulfield Prof. Meghan Azad, PhD CHILD Cohort Study UBC Media Relations Benoit-Antoine Bacon

Thank you for profiling our recent CHILD Cohort Study paper Antibuddies Podcast!

If people are interested the full manuscript can be accessed here for free: nature.com/articles/s4146…

GenomeBC Genome Canada CIHR Timothy Caulfield CHILD Cohort Study

Dr. Padmaja Subbarao leads the CHILD Cohort Study, a national birth cohort study that followed nearly 3,500 infants & their families for 12 years. She hopes to use this #SKResearch to inform individualize care for children with #asthma .

Read ➡️ bit.ly/3w3owcb (2/6)

A call out to all the great people behind CHILD! Here's just a few of them at last week's symposium on #birthcohorts & #PrecisionMedicine .

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Thanks to SickKids Foundation for hosting our #birthcohorts & #PrecisionMedicine symposium last week! Thanks to SickKids leaders Ronald D. Cohn, Dr. Stephen Scherer & Dr. Padmaja Subbarao for taking part!

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Thanks to guests Nicholas Timpson of Children of the 90s (UK) 🇬🇧, Melissa Wake of GenV (Australia) 🇦🇺, Jakob Stokholm & Klaus Bønnelykke of COPSAC (Denmark) 🇩🇰 for sharing their incredible experiences with #birthcohorts at the CHILD SickKids Foundation symposium!

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CHILD families: Hoping to hear from you soon!

Big thanks to CHILD Cohort Study participants and staff. Also to Microbiome editor and reviewers, who were fair and timely. The journal also made this cool video summarizing our work youtube.com/watch?v=idrJxl…

Excited to share a new study led by Emily Mercer (she/her) studying how #microbiome alpha-diversity patterns shift during the first year of life at the individual level. Wonderful collaboration with CHILD Cohort Study Prof. Meghan Azad, PhD Turvey lab and many more.
shorturl.at/bgsET Microbiome

What an amazing gathering last week at the CHILD SickKids Foundation symposium on #birthcohorts & #PrecisionMedicine ! Thanks for joining Children of the 90s COPSAC Melissa Wake

More: childstudy.ca/symposium-spot…

Congratulations to CHRIM researcher, Dr. Meaghan Jones (Meaghan Jones) for receiving a Michelle Harkness Mentorship Award (Investigator) from AllerGen Network! 👏

This award recognizes outstanding mentoring by investigators in allergic disease research and education.

Incredibly honoured to have been awarded the Michelle Harkness Mentorship Award from Michelle's family and AllerGen Network this past weekend.

The award has pride of place in my office where I can be reminded of the impact of good mentorship daily.

Great to celebrate the 2024 MHMA mentorship award winners Wendy Lou University of Toronto, Meaghan Jones University of Manitoba & Theo Moraes The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) with the Harkness family Glenn Glenn Harkness & Kasey Kasey Harkness

More: bit.ly/48z51qs