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 $695,295.00 to study the developmental trajectories of reinforcer pathology and childhood obesity. The project will assess how the reinforcing value of food and physical activity, as well as delay discounting, change throughout childhood and adolescence, and how these...
This Project Grant award of $274,595 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research supports research on the biological mechanisms linking childhood adversity and accelerated aging. The study aims to investigate how early life stress, including childhood maltreatment, may alter mitochondrial DNA and function, potentially increasing risk for stress- and age-related health...
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 provide $642,343 to American University to conduct research on the effects of federal funding for obesity prevention programs on weight-related health behaviors, obesity prevalence, and obesity-related chronic conditions. The project will leverage variation in which counties and...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $160,400 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to study the impact of U.S. immigration policies on dietary acculturation and childhood obesity among children of Mexican immigrants. The 2-year project (8/9/2024 - 7/31/2026) will analyze nationally-representative data linked to state and local immigration policy data to...
This federal 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 program provides $585,232 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to conduct research on the neurobiobehavioral underpinnings of intergenerational obesity. The award will support two complementary studies: (1) a secondary analysis of a pre-birth cohort to assess the impact of pre-pregnancy obesity on...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), awarded a $663,097 Project Grant to Merrimack College to evaluate the impact of the updated federal nutrition standards for school meals in the United States. The study aims to examine compliance with the new standards, potential product reformulation, changes in school meal participation rates, students' dietary intakes,...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will support a $1,346,289 research study conducted by Drexel University. The goal of the study is to evaluate the effects of federal and state nutrition policies, as well as local community food environments, on childhood obesity and obesity disparities among diverse Asian American...
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 determine the developmental origins and regulation of dermal adipose tissue. The $121,875 award, granted on April 5, 2025, will be performed by the University of Pennsylvania and aims to: (1) elucidate the mechanisms by which the transcription factor BCL11B...
This federal Project Grant award of $840,425.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) supports research examining the impact of prenatal and postnatal substance exposure on adolescent risk behaviors. The award to The Pennsylvania State University will leverage a longitudinal sample of 247 families to investigate developmental cascades linking pre- and post-natal substance use risks to adolescent substance use,...
This federal Project Grant award for $107,250 was provided 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). The funding supports research at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to investigate how developmental exposure to high omega-6 fatty acids impacts adipose stem cell fate and beige adipogenesis, with the goal of identifying novel mechanisms to promote...