Zachary Kroezen

Research Interests

Zach’s research began with a focus on Drugs of Abuse (DoA) testing using multisegment injection-capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (MSI-CE-MS), a method developed and validated in the Britz-McKibbin research group. Recently, Zach has been involved in collaborative works with colleagues from McMaster, other academic institutions and industry partners, performing metabolomic analyses on a variety of biological samples including: urine, serum, plasma, cord blood, intestinal fluid, tissue, stool, cecum, saliva, dried blood spots, and cell extracts. Currently his efforts are being used to study the impact of urbanization on the development of nutritional and physical activity changes, obesity, hypertension, dysglycemia, dyslipidemia, smoking, and CVD in the large-scale PURE study (Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological) with partners at McMaster's Public Health Research Institute (PHRI). Zach is also providing metabolomic analyses for Brazilian collaborators through the ENANI study (Estudo Nacional de Alimentação e Nutrição Infantil) which aims to assess the breastfeeding practices, nutritional status, food consumptions, and micronutrient deficiencies in Brazilian children. This work, paired with his contributions to the FAMILY (Family Atherosclerosis Monitoring In Early Life), CHILD (Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development), and START (South Asian Birth Cohort) cohort studies (in collaboration with the Health Sciences department at McMaster), are all tied to the DoHAD hypothesis, which understands the importance of studying early life exposures since these have the greatest influence on future health outcomes as one ages. 

Favorite Biological Specimen

Blood

Hobbies

Survivor (but really any reality TV gameshow), NASCAR