Carl Vincent Cabanilla

Mr. Cabanilla leads the Nutrient Requirement Unit at the Food and Nutrition Research Institute,  Department of Science and Technology in the Philippines. His Unitinvestigates the energy and nutrient  requirements of Filipinos across different age, sex and physiologic groups. His work has centered  around nutritional assessment using stable isotope techniques, and in particular has looked at measuring human milk intakes, body composition, and total energy expenditure. Other research  interests include assessment of vitamin A status and development of standards and tools towards  improvement of nutritional status of the population. He has been involved in international research  collaborations with International Atomic Energy Agency, Newcastle University, and Mahidol University  and has received funding support and grants from UK Medical Research Council, Food and Agriculture  Organization, World Health Organization, and Philippine Council for Health Research and  Development.  

Mr. Cabanilla graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with an undergraduate degree  in Chemistry and is currently finishing his master’s degree in the same university. While not in the  laboratory or at the study site, he is teaching undergraduate general chemistry at the De La Salle  Medical and Health Sciences Institute. 

He currently has 4 publications and is a co-author of a book and two book chapters in the field of food  and nutrition. His contributions to the field and to the Institute has earned him the Agency Model  Employee Award, presented to him by the Institute’s Program on Awards and Incentives for Service  Excellence (PRAISE) Committee in 2019. He was recently appointed as member of the Editorial Board 

of the Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, where he also serves as Associate Editor. 

During his spare time, he watches new releases on Netflix, reads James Patterson and Jeffrey Archer  novels, or plays with his three pets: a Pin-Tzu (a cross between Pinscher and Shih-Tzu) named Ebony  and two Siamese cats named Oreo and Cream-O.