Valentin Mocanu MD, PhD, CIP

Valentin Mocanu, the general surgery resident at the U of A, received the prestigious 2020 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to conduct his Ph.D. research. Valentin Mocanu’s work at the University of Alberta could be key to understanding the detrimental consequences of obesity.

Mocanu, a general surgery resident at the U of A, recently received the prestigious 2020 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to conduct his Ph.D. research and is an honorary recipient of the 2020 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship. He’s exploring the link between gut microbiota and obesity by using fecal transplantation in bariatric patients with metabolic syndrome.