This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), provides $502,233 to support research aimed at understanding the neural circuits in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) that mediate the suppression of food intake. The award, effective from February 1, 2025 to November 30, 2029, will support the Regents of the University of Michigan...
This Project Grant award for $800,000.00 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) supports research to develop innovative pharmacological approaches to simultaneously modulate the activity of multiple neuron types involved in regulating energy balance and feeding behavior. The award to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Bidmc) will fund the development of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), is intended to optimize an extended care intervention to promote weight loss maintenance. The $645,957 award will fund a study to efficiently test four "minimally disruptive" intervention components, including reduced food variety, home-based resistance training, buddy training...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), will provide $354,525 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York over a period from August 1, 2024 to May 31, 2029. The grant will support research to investigate the neuronal mechanisms underlying nutrient-specific feeding regulation, with a focus on how gut-derived peptide...
This $321,952 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program aims to investigate the role of the epigenetic modifier JMJD3 in regulating hypothalamic leptin signaling and energy homeostasis. The primary goals are to: 1) Examine whether hypothalamic JMJD3 protects against obesity through an epigenetic mechanism, using mouse models; 2) Explore the...
This federal Project Grant award of $340,175 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) will support a research project at American University to study the effects of federal funding for obesity prevention programs on weight-related health behaviors, obesity prevalence, and incidence of obesity-related chronic conditions. The project aims to leverage variation in...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under CFDA 93.847 Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research provides $506,598.00 in funding to Harvard College President & Fellows Of, specifically its Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Division, to conduct fluxomics studies on the effects of dietary fat and carbohydrate composition on energy metabolism. The key objectives are to: 1) Determine the dietary...
This $696,329 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), will be used by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct research on the sub-second catecholamine dynamics underlying food reward in humans. The key objectives of the research project are to: 1) measure dopamine and norepinephrine...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), will support research to investigate the role of the inward rectifier potassium channel KIR7.1 in regulating energy homeostasis and its potential as a target for treating obesity. The $195,000 award will be used by the Regents of the University of Michigan to identify KIR7.1-responsive...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a $123,375 Project Grant under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, aims to determine how obesity alters the function and distribution of gastric endocrine progenitor cells. The research will directly test whether activation of Notch...