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...
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 $499,761 federal Project Grant award, 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), supports research conducted by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. The award aims to define the connectivity between hypothalamic melanocortin peptide-expressing neurons and melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R)-expressing neurons in the medial prefrontal...
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 Project Grant award of $1,573,594 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 the scaling up of the "Building Healthy Families" (BHF) childhood obesity intervention in rural and micropolitan communities across a 6-state region. The project aims to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of the BHF online training resources and...
This Project Grant award, valued at $146,922.00 and issued on June 23, 2025, 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 award supports research at The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Health Sciences Division, to investigate how inhibiting the migration of immature neutrophils during obesity and weight loss affects...
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 support a pilot study to optimize a school-based obesity prevention intervention for adolescent girls in an urban informal settlement in Kenya. The $161,871 award, effective August 1, 2025, will fund a community-engaged process to refine the intervention components and conduct a pilot...
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 $176,500.00 to the University of Washington to investigate the links between hypothalamic microglia activation and perineuronal net (PNN) loss in the arcuate nucleus, and how these changes contribute to the pathogenesis of diet-induced obesity and glucose regulation. The...
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...
This $380,195 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program examines how increased attention to body weight impacts physical, psychological, and behavioral outcomes related to obesity. The key research activities include three lab experiments testing whether attention-related health cognitions cause increases in stress, changes in eating behavior and emotionality, and perceptions of exercise difficulty....