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Last day to register for the DNS Research Day and Edna Park Lecture 2025! Register now: my.alumni.utoronto.ca/EdnaPark2025


🎉 Excited to share that Dr. Vasanti Malik has been renewed as the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention (Tier 2) at UofT for the Fall 2025 cycle! Read more: Fall 2025 Recipients (cycle 2024-2)


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Mary L’Abbé & Bernard Zinman inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame #UofT 🩺 uoft.me/bWs


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🎉🚨New Paper:Caregiver feeding practices were associated with very low birthweight kids’ nutrition risk & BMI.These practices may be an important focus for intervention to mitigate cardiometabolic disease risk sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @DLOConnor0803 @katiehopperton @nutrisci_uoft

WaltonKath's tweet image. 🎉🚨New Paper:Caregiver feeding practices were associated with very low birthweight kids’ nutrition risk & BMI.These practices may be an important focus for intervention to mitigate cardiometabolic disease risk sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @DLOConnor0803 @katiehopperton @nutrisci_uoft

Join this fireside chat with Dr. Laura Chiavaroli and Sean McKelvey to discuss therapeutic medicines, dietary interventions and medicines to manage Type 2 diabetes and their role in Ontario's primary care strategy. Register: mito2i.ca/a-deeper-under… @uoftmedicine

nutrisci_uoft's tweet image. Join this  fireside chat with Dr. Laura Chiavaroli and Sean McKelvey to discuss therapeutic medicines, dietary interventions and medicines to manage Type 2 diabetes and their role in Ontario's primary care strategy. Register: mito2i.ca/a-deeper-under… 
@uoftmedicine

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Join us in congratulating the #2026CMHFInductees!cdnmedhall.ca/induction PAVEL HAMET, MD PhD ROBERT ALEXANDER HEGELE, MD MICHAEL D. HILL, MD MARY R. L'ABBÉ, PhD MORAG PARK, PhD BERNARD ZINMAN, MDCM @kellygrant1 @Megan_Ogilvie @LaurenPelley @DubinskiKa4985 @JenLeeCBC @Avis_Favaro

CdnMedHallFame's tweet image. Join us in congratulating the #2026CMHFInductees!cdnmedhall.ca/induction
PAVEL HAMET, MD PhD
ROBERT ALEXANDER HEGELE, MD 
MICHAEL D. HILL, MD
MARY R. L'ABBÉ, PhD
MORAG PARK, PhD
BERNARD ZINMAN, MDCM
@kellygrant1 @Megan_Ogilvie @LaurenPelley @DubinskiKa4985 @JenLeeCBC @Avis_Favaro

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Félicitations aux Drs Mary L’Abbé (@LAbbeLab_UofT), Michael Hill (@mihill68) et Rob Hegele pour leur intronisation au Temple de la renommée médicale canadienne! Votre travail novateur transforme la santé cardiaque et cérébrale ici et ailleurs. 👏

📢Nous dévoilons les noms des Canadiens et Canadiennes qui seront intronisés au TRMC! PAVEL HAMET, MD PhD ROBERT ALEXANDER HEGELE, MD MICHAEL D. HILL, MD MARY R. L'ABBÉ, PhD MORAG PARK, PhD BERNARD ZINMAN, MDCM @kellygrant1 @LaurenPelley @DubinskiKa4985 @JenLeeCBC @Avis_Favaro

CdnMedHallFame's tweet image. 📢Nous dévoilons les noms des Canadiens et Canadiennes qui seront intronisés au TRMC!
PAVEL HAMET, MD PhD
ROBERT ALEXANDER HEGELE, MD 
MICHAEL D. HILL, MD
MARY R. L'ABBÉ, PhD
MORAG PARK, PhD
BERNARD ZINMAN, MDCM
@kellygrant1 @LaurenPelley @DubinskiKa4985 @JenLeeCBC @Avis_Favaro


🚨 Big news! 🚨 We're proud to celebrate Dr. Mary R. L’ Abbé, CM PhD, named a 2026 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Inductee! A trailblazer in nutrition science & public health, her work continues to shape healthier lives across Canada. @CdnMedHallFame #PublicHealth @uoftmedicine

nutrisci_uoft's tweet image. 🚨 Big news! 🚨
We're proud to celebrate Dr. Mary R. L’ Abbé, CM PhD, named a 2026 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Inductee! A trailblazer in nutrition science & public health, her work continues to shape healthier lives across Canada. 
@CdnMedHallFame #PublicHealth @uoftmedicine

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A setback, a lizard and decades of work: The impact of Daniel Drucker’s research extends far beyond Ozempic #UofT 🔬 uoft.me/bSK


DNS Research Day and Edna Park Lecture 2025! Registration now open! Click the link below to register: my.alumni.utoronto.ca/EdnaPark2025 Make sure to register by Thursday, 6th November 2025! Looking forward to gathering the DNS community for a day of learning, discovery, and connection.


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From strength to greater strength, terrific recruitment of Professor Klatt to @uoftmedicine @nutrisci_uoft @UofT

Really excited to announce that I've accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Nutritional Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto! Very excited to venture north (🥶) & build out my own research group in human nutrition &metabolism 🥳



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New from the J Beaudry lab @beaudrj @uoftmedicine Roles for brown fat in lipid assimilation and oxidation in response to GIP in mice @nutrisci_uoft @BBDC_UofT embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…


Congrats to Dr. Richard Bazinet, recipient of the Western University 2025 Alumni of Distinction Award! With over 200 publications he has made compelling and impactful progress towards the advancement of brain lipid metabolism research! uwo.ca/fhs/fns/about/…

nutrisci_uoft's tweet image. Congrats to Dr. Richard Bazinet, recipient of the Western University 2025 Alumni of Distinction Award!
With over 200 publications he has made compelling and impactful progress towards the advancement of brain lipid metabolism research!
uwo.ca/fhs/fns/about/…

Dietary phospholipid carriers of DHA do not increase brain DHA levels: A replication study - Journal of Lipid Research jlr.org/article/S0022-… Congratulations to Brinley Kleivik from the Bazinet lab for this awesome work! @jlipidres #DHA #LipidResearch #BrainHealth #BazinetLab


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Hot off the press today! Our recent publication @uoftmedicine @nutrisci_uoft @HarvardChanSPH

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🚨 New from the Beaudry Lab! GIPR signaling in brown adipose tissue (BAT) is essential for GIP’s effects on lipid tolerance & fatty acid oxidation in obese mice. 📄 Read more: embopress.org/doi/full/10.10… #Metabolism #Obesity #BAT #GIP @beaudrj


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