The mission of the Minnesota Obesity Center is to find ways to prevent weight gain and secondarily the onset of obesity and complications of obesity. Obesity is clearly a major source of illness and death, and is the most common nutritional ailment in the United States. Despite its prevalence, there is little known about effective measures to prevent obesity, and therefore its attendant complications. Further, it is well known that obese individuals can more easily lose weight than maintain the loss. It now seems clear that the emphasis should be prevention of initial weight gain, and failing that, prevention of regain after weight loss. With the mission of prevention defined, our vision establishes three goals: 1) find the underlying problems that lead to obesity, 2) identify behaviors that lead to obesity and find ways to help change those behaviors, and 3) determine public health and public policy measures that will reduce the frequency and severity of obesity. Our Center is primarily a research center, so we plan encouragement and support of studies directed at these aims. With respect to these goals, the role of our center is to: assist principal investigators in conducting relevant research by providing resources through the core system; stimulate new interest in collaborations in research into obesity, eating disorders and energy metabolism; support new research efforts in these areas related to obesity; and support education in obesity and eating disorders in our academic and public communities. The Minnesota Obesity Center has a strong and diverse research base consisting of 46 active investigators with 87 funded projects in obesity, energy metabolism and eating disorders, generating over 18 million dollars per year in grant support for their investigations. We propose the establishment of four core facilities including: 1) Administration will provide vision, leadership, and oversight of other core activities, 2) Basic Mechanisms Core will provide molecular biologic support for studies of nutritional affects on gene expression in a variety of tissues and support the emerging interest in linking epidemiological and behavioral intervention studies available to ONRC participants, 4) Human Metabolic Core Laboratory will provide access to established and state-of-the-art methods for studying energy metabolism and nutrient partitioning all the whole body level in humans. In addition, resources for pilot/feasibility projects and an educational program have been established.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Type
Center Core Grants (P30)
Project #
2P30DK050456-06
Application #
6200657
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZDK1-GRB-1 (M1))
Program Officer
Hubbard, Van S
Project Start
1995-09-30
Project End
2005-08-31
Budget Start
2000-09-30
Budget End
2001-08-31
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$970,000
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Department
Psychiatry
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
168559177
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Country
United States
Zip Code
55455
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