Principal Investigator
Jane Shearer is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) as well as the Faculty of Kinesiology. She is a member of the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, the Libin Cardiovascular Institute and the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the CSM.
The cohort from the study are part of the Alberta Tomorrow Project, Alberta’s largest health research study investigating what causes and what could prevent cancer and chronic diseases. This work was also supported by a grant of the ERA-HDHL Initiative: Gut metabotypes as Biomarkers for Nutrition and Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Mu received postdoctoral funding from the Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowship.