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Anita Kozyrskyj

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Alberta

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Anita Kozyrskyj

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
5 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2015.
Supervisor on 6 trainee awards (6 CIHR), most recently in 2020.

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Research

Allergy Asthma Cesarean Section Infants Intestine Microbiota Overweight Preschool

Latest papers

Microbial Diversity Estimation and Hill Number Calculation Using the Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process.
Statistics in medicine · 2026
Early-life antibiotic exposure aggravates hepatic steatosis through enhanced endotoxemia and lipotoxic effects driven by gut Parabacteroides.
MedComm · 2025
Maternal Iron and Vitamin D Status during the Second Trimester Is Associated with Third Trimester Depression Symptoms among Pregnant Participants in the APrON Cohort.
The Journal of nutrition · 2024

All 17 publications

Latest funding

The Impact of Maternal Distress on Infant Neurodevelopment: Examining the Mediating Role of the Infant Gut Microbiome and Metabolome
CIHR · 2020 · Supervisor
$6,000
The impact of exposure to household furry pets on infant gut microbiota and gut maturity, and the prevention of childhood atopy and obesity
CIHR · 2016 · Supervisor
$135,000
Cesarean section: impact on infant gut microbiota, childhood obesity and allergic disease
CIHR · 2015 · Nominated PI
$538,497

All 13 grants and awards

17 publications.

Microbial Diversity Estimation and Hill Number Calculation Using the Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process.

McGregor K, Parsons T, Simons E, Scott J, Kozyrskyj A, Quince C

Statistics in medicine2026

DOI: 10.1002/sim.70689 PMID: 42547909

Early-life antibiotic exposure aggravates hepatic steatosis through enhanced endotoxemia and lipotoxic effects driven by gut Parabacteroides.

Zhang X, Chan DCL, Zhu J, Sin DZY, Peng Y, Wong MKL, Zhu W, Tsui Y, Haqq AM, Ting JY, Kozyrskyj A, Chan FKL, Ng SC, Tun HM

MedComm2025

DOI: 10.1002/mco2.70104 PMID: 39968496

Maternal Iron and Vitamin D Status during the Second Trimester Is Associated with Third Trimester Depression Symptoms among Pregnant Participants in the APrON Cohort.

Evanchuk JL, Kozyrskyj A, Vaghef-Mehrabani E, Lamers Y, Giesbrecht GF, Letourneau N, Aghajafari F, Dewey D, Leung B, Bell RC, Field CJ

The Journal of nutrition2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.10.029 PMID: 37984742

Maternal Iron Status Is Dynamic Throughout Pregnancy and Might Predict Birth Outcomes in a Sex Dependent Manner: Results from the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) Cohort Study.

Evanchuk JL, Kozyrskyj A, Hanas N, Goruk S, Vaghef-Mehrabani E, Archundia-Herrera CM, O'Brien KO, Letourneau NL, Giesbrecht GF, Bell RC, Field CJ

The Journal of nutrition2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.06.042 PMID: 37393033

Pathways of atopic disease and neurodevelopmental impairment: assessing the evidence for infant antibiotics.

Volker E, Tessier C, Rodriguez N, Yager J, Kozyrskyj A

Expert review of clinical immunology2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/1744666x.2022.2101450 PMID: 35822921

Project Earthrise: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health.

Prescott SL, Wegienka G, Kort R, Nelson DH, Gabrysch S, Hancock T, Kozyrskyj A, Lowry CA, Redvers N, Poland B, Robinson J, Moubarac JC, Warber S, Jansson J, Sinkkonen A, Penders J, Erdman S, Nanan R, van den Bosch M, Schneider K, Schroeck NJ, Sobko T, Harvie J, Kaplan GA, Moodie R, Lengnick L, Prilleltensky I, Celidwen Y, Berman SH, Logan AC, Berman B

International journal of environmental research and public health2021

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182010654 PMID: 34682400

Study protocol for the Sino-Canadian Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (SCHeLTI): a multicentre, cluster-randomised, parallel-group, superiority trial of a multifaceted community-family-mother-child intervention to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.

Wu Y, Marc I, Bouchard L, Ouyang F, Luo ZC, Fan J, Dubois L, Mâsse B, Zhang J, Leung PCK, Liao XP, Herba CM, Booij L, Shen J, Lewin A, Jiang H, Wang L, Xu J, Wu W, Sun W, Wu J, Li H, Lei C, Kozyrskyj A, Semenic S, Chaillet N, Fortier I, Masse L, Zhan J, Allard C, Knoppers B, Zawati M, Baillargeon JP, Velez MP, Zhang H, Yu Y, Yu W, Ding Y, Vaillancourt C, Liu H, Tetu A, Fang W, Zhang R, Zhao X, Jin Y, Liu XM, Zhang H, Chen Z, Yang X, Hao YH, Abdelouahab N, Fraser W, Huang HF

BMJ open2021

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045192 PMID: 33795307

Maternal and cord blood vitamin D level and the infant gut microbiota in a birth cohort study.

Kassem Z, Sitarik A, Levin AM, Lynch SV, Havstad S, Fujimura K, Kozyrskyj A, Ownby DR, Johnson CC, Yong GJM, Wegienka G, Cassidy-Bushrow AE

Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology2020

DOI: 10.1186/s40748-020-00119-x PMID: 33101701

Food allergy and growth from late childhood to early adolescence.

Smith SJ, Abrams EM, Kozyrskyj A, Becker A, Protudjer JLP

Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2020.05.030 PMID: 32504665

Eighth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health: From Challenges to Opportunities.

Prescott SL, Hancock T, Bland J, van den Bosch M, Jansson JK, Johnson CC, Kondo M, Katz D, Kort R, Kozyrskyj A, Logan AC, Lowry CA, Nanan R, Poland B, Robinson J, Schroeck N, Sinkkonen A, Springmann M, Wright RO, Wegienka G

International journal of environmental research and public health2019

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16214302 PMID: 31694316

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Anita Kozyrskyj

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Latest funding

Microbial Diversity Estimation and Hill Number Calculation Using the Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process.

Early-life antibiotic exposure aggravates hepatic steatosis through enhanced endotoxemia and lipotoxic effects driven by gut Parabacteroides.

Maternal Iron and Vitamin D Status during the Second Trimester Is Associated with Third Trimester Depression Symptoms among Pregnant Participants in the APrON Cohort.

Maternal Iron Status Is Dynamic Throughout Pregnancy and Might Predict Birth Outcomes in a Sex Dependent Manner: Results from the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) Cohort Study.

Pathways of atopic disease and neurodevelopmental impairment: assessing the evidence for infant antibiotics.

Project Earthrise: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health.

Study protocol for the Sino-Canadian Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (SCHeLTI): a multicentre, cluster-randomised, parallel-group, superiority trial of a multifaceted community-family-mother-child intervention to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.

Maternal and cord blood vitamin D level and the infant gut microbiota in a birth cohort study.

Food allergy and growth from late childhood to early adolescence.

Eighth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health: From Challenges to Opportunities.

Frequent collaborators

Blake Poland

Matilda Van Den Bosch

Luigi Bouchard

Yvonne Lamers

Isabel Fortier

Linda Booij

Jerome Yager

Jean-Patrice Baillargeon

Linda Booij

Zhong-Cheng Luo

Anita Kozyrskyj

Allan Becker

Jean-Claude Moubarac

Theo Moraes

Hind Sbihi

Brenda Leung

Linda Booij

Fariba Aghajafari

Ma'n Zawati

William Fraser

Sonia Anand

Judah Aryeh Denburg

Joseph Macri

Michael Mark Cyr

Padmaja Subbarao

Malcolm Sears

J Michael Paterson

Nicole Letourneau

Dawn Kingston

Bartha Knoppers

Deborah Dewey

Lise Dubois

Padmaja Subbarao

Isabelle Marc