This federal Project Grant award of $321,952 was issued 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 will fund research at Arizona State University, Division - doing business as Orspa, to examine the role of the JMJD3 gene in regulating leptin signaling and energy homeostasis in the hypothalamus. The project aims to demonstrate how JMJD3 acts as an...
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 $578,060.00 to the University of California, Berkeley to study a potential new enhancer region that regulates the UCP1 gene, which is critical for brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and combating obesity. The research aims to elucidate the role of this enhancer and its associated...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $450,000 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 grant will fund research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a division of Louisiana State University, to elucidate the roles of the protein KAT8 in adipocyte (fat cell) function and its impact on systemic metabolic health. The research...
This $255,320 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 at the University of Pittsburgh to determine the role of insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) in regulating adipocyte progenitor proliferation and adipogenesis. The key objectives are to (1) define whether IGF2 regulates the proliferation of adipocyte progenitor...
This $409,375 Project Grant award, issued under the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases' (NIDDK) Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), supports scientific research focused on understanding the critical role of hepatic fatty acid oxidation in regulating systemic metabolic homeostasis. The principal investigator, from The Johns Hopkins University, will leverage genetic mouse models to examine how alterations in...
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 $242,848 to the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) to conduct research on the role of the zinc finger protein 949 (ZFP949) in regulating adipocyte hypertrophy and its potential as a therapeutic target for obesity. The research aims to leverage multi-omic approaches,...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a $604,853 Project Grant to Rockefeller University under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847). The award, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will fund a research project to elucidate the genetic determinants of human brown adipose tissue (BAT) function. The project employs innovative strategies to leverage data from unique human cohorts to...
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 $340,175 to American University to conduct research on the role of federal funding in reducing the prevalence of obesity. The study will leverage variation in which counties and states received CDC obesity prevention awards, when they received the awards, and how much funding...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $695,295 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 will fund a research project titled "Developmental Trajectories of Reinforcer Pathology and Childhood Obesity" from March 15, 2025 to January 31, 2030. The project aims to assess the developmental trajectories of food and activity...
This $1,902,238 Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under CFDA 93.847 Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program, will support research to characterize the relationships between genetic risk factors, parental feeding practices, children's appetitive traits, and adiposity gain across early childhood. The primary goals are to understand how coercive parental feeding practices like food restriction...