Dear Colleagues,
As the Editors-in-Chief of Nutrients, it is our great pleasure to announce the winner of the Nutrients 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. The aim of this prize was to grant it to a Ph.D. student or a doctor who produced a highly anticipated academic potential thesis.
The award has been granted to:
“Gut microbiota, its modifications and the gut-brain axis”
By Dr. Julia Rode, Örebro University, Sweden.
The winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper in Nutrients in 2022.
On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I congratulate the winner on her accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the nominated research groups of the above exceptional thesis for their contributions to Nutrients, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.
Prof. Dr. Maria Luz Fernandez and Prof. Dr. Lluis Serra-Majem
Editors-in-Chief, Nutrients
Nutrients 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award
Winner
Lucía Iglesias Vázquez
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Award Committee
Prof. Maria-Luz Fernandez
Chairman
University of Connecticut
Dr. Javier Gomez-Ambrosi
Clinica Universidad de Navarra
Prof. Dr. M. Luisa Bonet
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Prof. Dr. Philip Atherton
Nottingham Uni
Prof. Dr. Kimber L. Stanhope
Winner
Alex Mohr
Arizona State University, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Maria-Luz Fernandez
Chairman
University of Connecticut
Prof. Dr. Hermann Toplak
Medizinische Universität Graz, Univ. Klinik für Innere Medizin
Prof. Dr. M. Luisa Bonet
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Prof. Dr. Philip Atherton
Nottingham Uni
Dr. Javier Gomez-Ambrosi
Clinica Universidad de Navarra
Prof. Dr. Kimber L. Stanhope
Winner
Julia Rode
Örebro University, Sweden
Award Committee
Prof. Maria-Luz Fernandez
Chairman
University of Connecticut
Prof. Ina Bergheim
University of Vienna
Dr. Leanne M. Redman
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Dr. Dolores del Castillo
CSIC
Dr. Francisco José Perez
University of Barcelona
Dr. Gloria Vega
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Prof. Manohar Garg
University of Necwastle
Prof. Valerie Duffy
University of Connecticut
