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Dr. Carla Taylor is a full Professor in the Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. She also holds an adjunct professorship in the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the same institution. As a Principal Investigator at the Canadian Centre for Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) based at St. Boniface Hospital Research, she leads a multidisciplinary research program focused on metabolic nutrition and chronic disease prevention.
- PhD, Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph
- BH Ecol, Foods and Nutrition, University of Manitoba
Dr. Taylor's research centers on understanding how dietary components—such as omega-3 fatty acids, conjugated linoleic acid, plant-based bioactives from pulses and buckwheat, and zinc—affect obesity, insulin resistance, vascular health, and metabolic syndrome. Her work spans both animal models and human clinical trials, with a strong emphasis on mechanistic insights into adipocyte dysfunction and systemic inflammation. She investigates how dietary interventions can improve metabolic outcomes independent of weight loss, particularly through modulation of adipokine profiles and vascular function.
Her recent publications highlight a consistent trend in plant-based dietary strategies for managing chronic diseases. Research focuses on pulses, flaxseed, canola oil, and buckwheat as functional foods that improve lipid profiles, glycemic control, vascular function, and inflammation. Clinical trials explore protein sources for muscle preservation during weight loss and omega-3 sources in inflammatory conditions. These studies employ advanced methodologies including pulse wave velocity, oral glucose tolerance, and metabolomic profiling.
Dr. Taylor has been recognized with prestigious awards including the International Life Sciences Institute Future Leader Award in Nutrition (1996) and the Canadian Society of Nutritional Sciences – Centrum Foundation New Scientist Award (2005). She has served on national grant review panels for NSERC and CIHR, and has held editorial roles at Lipids and the British Journal of Nutrition.
She has mentored numerous students and trainees over her career and previously held administrative roles such as Acting Department Head and Associate Head. Although she is not currently accepting graduate students, her research program remains active with ongoing clinical and preclinical studies. Her lab utilizes a comprehensive suite of tools ranging from EchoMRI and Doppler systems to flow cytometry and HPLC, supporting a highly integrated research approach.
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