A UConn nutritional sciences postdoctoral fellow, who was named an “emerging leader” in his field at a recent international event, began the path to nutrition research when he was studying biochemistry as a Nebraska undergraduate.
“I was always curious about science and loved biochemistry. But, I never imagined being in nutritional sciences,” said Tho Pham, who is the first place winner of the postdoctoral fellow category in American Society for Nutrition’s Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science poster competition at Experimental Biology 2017. Four hundred nutritional scientists judged the competition.
In referring to this award and Pham’s USDA pre and postdoctoral fellowship grants, Department of Nutritional Sciences Head Sung Koo said, “Tho is truly an emerging scholar.”
Scholar Pham is not new to receiving honors. For example, his first exposure to nutritional sciences started with an Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) award at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where he was a student. The UCARE website says that the program is “a paid opportunity for undergraduates to work one-on-one with a faculty research advisor conducting cutting-edge research…”
