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Dr Schellekens awarded unprecedented second BINC research funding award for her project NourishMind

27 Sep 2024

Dr Harri毛t Schellekens, has recently been awarded a second Biostime Institute for Nutrition and Care BINC research funding award for her project NourishMind: Unravelling the Impact of Early-Life High-fat, High Sugar Diets on Neuro-Cognitive Development and Gut-Brain Pathways.

Dr Schellekens, a Senior Lecturer in the department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, and funded investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland is the first person to been awarded two consecutive BINC awards.  Dr Schellekens explains how a poor early-life diet profoundly impacts on the metabolic programming and infant brain development, heightening the risk of obesity later in life, and associated cognitive impairment, including attention, executive function, and decision making. Dr Schellekens is delighted that such important work has received such generous funding.

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