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Mariaan Wicks

BELINDA BANTHAM — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:35:49 +0000

Mariaan Wicks BELINDA BANTHAM Thu, 04/10/2025 - 12:35

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Mariaan

Wicks

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Mariaan Wicks is a registered dietitian and a senior lecturer at in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Subject Group Nutrition at the North-West University, South Africa. Mariaan has a special interest in nutrition focussed interventions to combat obesity and non-communicable diseases, with a specific focus on nutrient profiling and food labelling.

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NWU, Potchefstroom Campus, Building G16, Room 156

Telephone Number

018 229 2468

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082 772 9427

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Mariaan.Wicks@nwu.ac.za

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Cornelie Nienaber-Rousseau

BELINDA BANTHAM — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Cornelie Nienaber-Rousseau BELINDA BANTHAM Thu, 03/27/2025 - 13:00

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Cornelie

Nienaber-Rousseau

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Centre of Excellence for Nutrition

I am an Associate Professor of Nutrition at North-West University (NWU), with expertise in gene-environment interactions related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). I hold a PhD in Nutrition from NWU, where I investigated gene-diet interactions influencing homocysteine levels. My postdoctoral research at Wageningen University in the Netherlands further deepened my expertise in nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics. Since 2010, I have been a faculty member at NWU, where I was promoted to Senior Lecturer (2012) and Associate Professor (2018). I have supervised multiple MSc and PhD students, authored 29 peer-reviewed publications, and contributed to 43 verified peer reviews. My work has been cited over 500 times, and I hold an NRF C2 rating (2022). I am actively involved in the global scientific community, serving as a Review Editor for Thrombosis Journal (Springer) and Guest Editor for Metabolites, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, and Applied Sciences. My editorial contributions focus on thrombosis, vascular aging and nutrigenomics. I have also presented research at national and international conferences. Beyond academia, I contribute to science communication as the creator of Nutrition Unveiled, a platform demystifying nutrition science. As a member of the African Society of Human Genetics and the International Society of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics, I continue to advance research on the interplay between genetics, diet and NCD risk.

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https://nutrition-unveiled.ghost.io/

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Potchefstroom, G16, first floor, 151

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0182994169

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Cornelie.nienaber@nwu.ac.za

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Herculina Salome Kruger

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 11:50:16 +0000

Herculina Salome Kruger BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 10/24/2018 - 13:50

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Professor

Salome

Kruger

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Salome Kruger is a registered dietitian and pharmacist and Professor of Nutrition at the Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University. As member of consultative groups to the South African Department of Health she had the opportunity to advise on national policy. She is a member of an African working group on anthropometric factors and cardiometabolic disease (African Partnership for Chronic Disease Research, APCDR) and the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group, a worldwide network of clinical and public health researchers and practitioners with focus on analysing worldwide trends and health effects of cardiometabolic risk factors. She is a Deputy Editor of the international scientific journal, Public Health Nutrition and member of the Academy of Science of South Africa her current NRF rating is C1 and she is a Fellow of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.

She received awards for best publications and conference presentations, including the John M Kinney award for the best publication in pediatric nutrition in the journal, Nutrition in 2005, the ICAO-Lilly award at the International Congress on Abdominal Obesity, Quebec City, Canada in 2012, the Nutrition Society of South Africa award for nutrition research in South Africa, 2014, the Unilever award for best presentation by a senior scientist at the South African Nutrition Congress in 2014 and for second best presentation in 2016.

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Herculina_Kruger

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Potchefstroom Campus, Building G16, floor 1, office 151.