Research Grant Awarded to Zhongyao Li
Zhongyao Li, a doctoral student in the Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science program, has received an Oncology Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group Research Grant for her project “Ultra-Processed Food Consumptions and Breast Cancer Risk and Mortality in Two Large Prospective Cohort Studies.”
In this study, Zhongyao aims to examine the association between ultra-processed food consumption and the risk of developing breast cancer among participants, as well as risk of mortality among breast cancer survivors in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and NHS II.