
2025 ASNF-NNF Flemming Quaade Award for Innovative Approaches in Childhood Obesity: Twenty-One Rejections Roused Rigor – My Discoveries in Childhood Obesity (NUTRITION 2025 On Demand Collection)
This course is included in the NUTRITION 2025 On Demand Collection.
The American Society for Nutrition Foundation (ASNF) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF), two philanthropic 501(c)(3) organizations, have joined forces to launch this new award to celebrate excellence in nutrition science and provide critical support to researchers at pivotal stages of their careers.
The ASNF-NNF Flemming Quaade Award is named in honor of Flemming Quaade, a prominent Danish researcher and advocate for childhood obesity prevention. This award recognizes innovative approaches to the prevention and management of childhood obesity, a growing public health challenge worldwide.
Originally presented at NUTRITION 2025, ASN's flagship meeting which was held May 31 to June 3 in Orlando, FL.
Award Lecturer

Andrew Agbaje, MD, MPH, PhD, FACC, FESC, FAHA, FNYAM
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Child Health
University of Eastern Finland
Additional Speakers
David Allison, PhD
Dean & Distinguished Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington
Arne Astrup, MD, DMSc
Professor / Senior Vice President - Obesity and Nutrition Sciences
Healthy Weight Center
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Paul Coates, PhD
Chair of the Board of Trustees
American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Foundation
This activity includes the following presentations:
Welcome and Introductions from the ASN Foundation - Meet the Investigator and Winner of the 2025 ASNF-NNF Flemming Quaade Award for Innovative Approaches in Childhood Obesity: Twenty-One Rejections Roused Rigor – My Discoveries in Childhood Obesity
Paul M. Coates, PhD
American Society for Nutrition Foundation
Nutrition Matters: Celebrating Discovery and Innovation, an Initiative of the ASN Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation
Paul M. Coates, PhD
American Society for Nutrition Foundation
Welcome and Introduction to the Novo Nordisk Foundation
Arne Vernon Astrup, MD, DMSc
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Meet the Investigator and Winner of the 2025 ASNF-NNF Flemming Quaade Award for Innovative Approaches in Childhood Obesity: Twenty-One Rejections Roused Rigor – My Discoveries in Childhood Obesity
Andrew Agbaje, MD, MPH, PhD, FACC, FESC, FAHA, FNYAM
University of Eastern Finland
Celebrating Discovery: A Conversation with the Inaugural ASNF-NNF Flemming Quaade Award Winner and Audience Questions and Answers
Andrew Agbaje, MD, MPH, PhD, FACC, FESC, FAHA, FNYAM
University of Eastern Finland
David Allison, PhD
Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington
Arne Vernon Astrup, MD, DMSc
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Paul M. Coates, PhD
American Society for Nutrition Foundation
Continuing education credit is not available for this activity. A Certificate of Attendance can be downloaded by learners who complete the course.
Available Credit
- 1.00 Attendance
Learners are eligible to download a Certificate of Attendance upon activity completion. A Certificate of Attendance confirms the learner has completed the activity and does not confer any continuing education credit to the learner from ASN.

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