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The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Website Table of Contents
Obesity Research at NIH
This NIH Obesity website presents information about NIH-supported research
to facilitate progress towards obesity prevention and treatment.
Resources for Researchers
Databases, Registries and Information
Basic Research Networks
Reagents
Services
Standardization Programs
Tissues, Cells, Animals
Useful Tools
Clinical Research
Multicenter Clinical Research
Search for Clinical Trials
Centers
Clinical Nutrition Research Units (CRNU) - Overview & Map
Obesity / Nutrition Research Centers (ONRC) - Overview & Map
Committees and Advisory Groups
Clinical Obesity Research Panel (CORP)
Related Study Sections
Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Emotion, Stress and Health Study Section
[MESH]
Cellular Aspects of Diabetes and Obesity Study Section [CADO]
Clinical and Integrative Diabetes and Obesity Study Section [CIDO]
Integrative Nutrition and Metabolic Processes Study Section [INMP]
Integrative Physiology of Obesity and Diabetes Study Section [IPOD]
Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes [KNOD]
Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior Study Section [NMB]
Neuroendocrinology, Neuroimmunology and Behavior Study Section [NNB]
NIDDK Staff
Dr. Kristin Abraham, Cell Signaling and Diabetes Centers Program Director
Dr. Arthur Castle, DEM, Director, Metabolomics and Informatics Programs
Dr. Edward Doo, Director of the Liver Diseases Program
Dr. Mary Evans,
Director, Special Projects in Nutrition, Obesity, and Digestive Diseases
Dr. Jay Everhart, Director of the Epidemiology and Data Systems Branch
Dr. Judith Fradkin, Director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and
Metabolic Diseases
Dr. Sanford Garfield, Senior Advisor for Biometry and Behavioral Research
Program
Dr. Carol Haft, Senior Advisor for Cell Biology Associate Director for
Grants Administration
Dr. Mary Horlick, Pediatric Clinical Obesity Program Director
Dr. Christine Hunter, DEM, Director, Diabetes and Obesity Behavioral
Research Program
Dr. Stephen James, Director, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
Dr. Robert Karp, Director of the Genetics and Genomics Programs
Dr. Robert Kuczmarski, Director; Obesity Prevention and Treatment Program
Dr. Maren Laughlin, Senior Advisor for Integrative Metabolism
Dr. Michael May, Director; Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrinology Program
Director; Gastrointestinal Transport and Absorption Program
Dr. Carolyn Miles, Director; Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Program
Dr. Judith Podskalny, Director; Research Fellowship and Career Development
and Digestive Disease Centers Programs
Dr. Patricia Robuck, Program Director for Clinical Trials in Digestive
Diseases and Nutrition
Dr. Sheryl Sato , Director, Neurobiology of Obesity and Developmental
Biology
Dr. Corinne Silva, Director, Intrauterine Environment and Signaling and
Nutrient Sensing
Dr. Philip Smith, Deputy Director of the Division of Diabetes,
Endocrinology and Metabolism, Co-Director, Office of Obesity Research
Dr. Myrlene Staten, Senior Advisor, Diabetes Research Translation
Dr. Susan Yanovski, Co-Director, Office of Obesity Research
Funding Opportunities
All NIDDK PAs, RFAs, and Notices
Obesity Research PAs
General NIDDK PAs
Funding for Special Communities
Training and Careers
Small Business
Conferences
Conference Grant Support
Upcoming
Past Obesity Research Conference Reports
Related Reports
Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research (pdf)
The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight
and Obesity
Related Organizations
NIH Division of Nutrition Research Coordination (DNRC)
See Also
Metabolic Diseases Research at NIDDK
Diabetes Research at NIDDK
Endocrinology Research at NIDDK
Nutrition Research at NIDDK
Medline Plus: Obesity
Weight-control Information Network
Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of
Overweight and Obesity in Adults
Obesity and Cancer Factsheet
Obesity and the Environment Factsheet
Guidelines on Overweight and Obesity--Electronic Textbook
Federal Obesity Initiatives (pdf)
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005
Obesity Databases, Registries and Information
<http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/Research/Resources/ObesityResources.htm#1>
Central NIDDK Repository for Biosamples and Data
http://www.niddkrepository.org
On July 1, 2003, The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
established Central NIDDK Repositories for biosamples and data collected
in clinical studies. The purpose of the Central Repositories is to expand
the usefulness of these studies by providing access to the biosamples and
data to a wider research community beyond the end of the study.
For more information, contact Dr. Rebekah Rasooly, Deputy Director of the
Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases.
Diabetes Genome Anatomy Project (DGAP)
http://www.diabetesgenome.org/
The Diabetes Genome Anatomy Project (DGAP) represents a unique,
multidimensional initiative whose goal is to unravel the interface between
insulin action, insulin resistance and the genetics of type 2 diabetes.
The overall goal of the project is to identify the sets of the genes
involved in insulin action and the predisposition to type 2 diabetes, as
well as the secondary changes in gene expression that occur in response to
the metabolic abnormalities present in diabetes.
For more information, contact Dr. Olivier Blondel, DEM, Director,
Endocrine Systems Biology Program.
Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers (MMPC)
http://www.mmpc.org
The Centers are housed at outstanding academic institutions, staffed by
experts in state-of-the-art technology. Researchers can ship mice to one
of the four Centers and obtain on a fee-for-service basis a range of
complex exams used to characterize mouse metabolism, blood composition
including hormones, energy balance, eating and exercise, organ function
and morphology, physiology and histology. Many tests are done in living
animals and are designed to elucidate subtle to complex traits that would
define models of metabolic disease.
For more information, contact Dr. Maren Laughlin, DEM, Senior Advisor for
Integrative Metabolism.
National Gene Vector Laboratories (NGVL)
http://www.ngvl.org/
The National Gene Vector Laboratories (NGVL) are composed of an
interactive group of academic production and pharm/tox laboratories whose
primary goal is to provide eligible investigators with clinical grade
vectors for phase I/II gene therapy clinical trials and to provide support
for relevant pharmacology/toxicology studies leading up to clinical gene
transfer protocols. If the application is approved, clinical grade
material will be produced at no cost to the investigator.
For more information, contact Dr. Catherine McKeon, DEM, Senior Advisor
for Genetic Research in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases.
Nuclear Receptor Resource Project (NRR)
http://nrr.georgetown.edu/NRR/nrrhome.htm
The Nuclear Receptor Resource (NRR) Project is a collection of individual
databases on members of the steroid and thyroid hormone receptor
superfamily. Although the databases are located on different servers and
are managed individually, they each form a node of the NRR. The NRR itself
integrates the separate databases and allows an interactive forum for the
dissemination of information about the superfamily.
For more information, contact Dr. Ronald Margolis, DEM, Senior Advisor,
Molecular Endocrinology.
Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas (NURSA)
http://www.nursa.org/
Commensurate with this directive, NURSA's goals can be distilled into two
broad aims: (i) to execute research strategies designed to rapidly and
efficiently elucidate those facets of orphan nuclear receptor biology we
deem most critical to its understanding; and (ii) to facilitate the
generation of hypotheses, design of experiments and communication of
results by scientists active in this field. We anticipate that this
initiative will provide a valuable service to the nuclear receptor
community by developing a web-accessible bioinformatics resource, in which
current and emerging data will be organized into more accessible and
"user-mineable" forms.
For more information, contact Dr. Ronald Margolis, DEM, Senior Advisor,
Molecular Endocrinology.
Obesity Useful Tools
Body Mass Index Calculator
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/
BMI for adults can be calculated using only height and weight.
The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight
and Obesity
<http://dnrc.nih.gov/highlights/surgeon_general.shtml>
The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight
and Obesity
Summary of the 2000 Surgeon General's Listening Session: Toward a National
Action Plan on Overweight and Obesity
Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative
Call to Action Follow-up Activities
The NIH Division of Nutrition Research Coordination (DNRC) has
collaborated with the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) and each
of their 10 Regional Health Administrators and provided support for the
organization and logistics of a follow-up meetings to The Surgeon
General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity.
These follow-up meetings have been part of the HHS actions undertaken to
foster initiatives and collaborations at the local community level. These
workshops or public forums should offer an opportunity to solicit the
opinions of community organizations, professional groups, consumers, and
federal, state, and local government workers on the identification of
potential actions, interactions, and collaborations that can help prevent
and decrease overweight and obesity.
A summary report describing the participants, objectives and the
identified actions or accomplishments of each of the meetings will be
shared with all Federal agency representatives involved in the follow-up
actions to The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease
Overweight and Obesity.
National
The National Obesity Action Forum , June 5-6, 2006 is a follow-up to the
2001 Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight
and Obesity. Since the 2001 release, the ten U.S. Public Health Service
Regions have hosted "regional meetings" with the distinct purpose of
stimulating local action. This follow-up meeting will provide a forum for
discussing local actions, including those taken at the state level that
have occurred since the Call to Action. More specifically, the forum will
serve to identify lessons learned in implementing change at the family and
community levels--lessons from the ten conferences that were held in
collaboration with the Office of the Regional Health Administrators since
the Call to Action was released in December 2001.
Region I
25th Annual NECON Conference on Promoting Prevention - "Creating an Ethic
of Prevention in New England" (October 28, 2005)
24th Annual NECON Conference on Promoting Prevention: The Science of
Prevention (October 8, 2004)
Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Overweight and Obesity in
New England Implementation Conference (June 11, 2004)
NECON Obesity Control Forum (February 11, 2003)
Region II
Obesity Prevention: Update on Public Health Strategies, September 14,
2005. (Click on "Webcast Library" and then on "Nutrition/Physical
Activity")
Obesity Prevention: Building Strategies and Strengthening Partnerships
(July 14, 2004)
Region III
Mid-Atlantic Obesity Conference (June 10-11, 2004)
Region IV
2004 Obesity Workshop (December 1-3, 2004). The conference will feature
speakers on Nutrition and Physical Activity, Body Composition and Action
Learning Labs.
Region V
Building a Healthier Community: Eat Well, Live Well (January 22-23, 2009)
Obesity in Michigan: Join the Fight for Health (October 8, 2004)
Region VI
Weighing Down Obesity Conference (August 7 - 8, 2003) The conference
brought together federal, state, and local experts from Region VI to share
their experiences in developing culturally appropriate services that
address obesity prevention, training, and research activities.
Region VII
Conference on the Prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obese
Individuals (September 8-10, 2005)
Region VIII
Spring 2005: A video conference workshop on Hispanic/ Latino obesity
prevention and treatment is planned. The Planning Committee includes
continued participation from committee used for the Nov 2002 Region VIII
obesity prevention conference. Date and agenda TBD.
May 2004: A video conference workshop entitled "Fighting the Obesity
Epidemic in Indian Country" was held. The conference had over 40 sites,
primarily from Region VIII, participate in this half day workshop. Seventy
five copies of the video tape were requested by those unable to attend the
actual workshop.
November 2002: A two day conference entitled "Addressing the Obesity
Epidemic: Our Region takes Action!" was held. Topics blended scientific
research with successful approaches for real populations in real
environments.
Region IX
August 18-20, 2004: Meeting held at the UCLA Conference Center, Los
Angeles, CA
Region X
The Walk in Challenge
Food, Physical Activity and Body Weight: A Regional Response to The
Surgeon General's Call to Action (September 18-19, 2003)
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