Resubmission Grants

Obesity Initiative Fall 2021 Resubmission Grant

Joseph Kindler PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences received $6,000  funding  from the Obesity Initiative and $4,000 from his department  in support of his  research Defining the “Gut-Bone Axis” in Youth: A Pilot and Feasibility Study 

Obesity Initiative Fall 2020 Resubmission Grant

Krzysztof Czaja, DVM, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Veterinary Biosciences and Diagnostic Imaging received $7,500  funding  from the Obesity Initiative and $1,500 from his department and $1,500 from the UGA Office of Research in support of his  efforts to generatae additional preliminary evidence to support his NIH grant resubmission related to testing the central hypothesis that diet-driven microbiota dysbiosis is sufficient to remodel the vagal afferent component of gut-brain axis, induce microglia activation in the hindbrain and promote obesity.

Obesity Initiative Fall 2020 Resubmission Grant

Joseph Kindler PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Foods and Nutrition received $7,500  funding  from the Obesity Initiative and $1,500 from his department and $1,500 from the UGA Office of Research, in support of his  efforts to generatae additional preliminary evidence to support his NIH grant resubmission related to Visceral Fat and Type 2 Diabetes-Related Carviovascular Disease in Youth.

Obesity Initiative Fall 2019 Resubmission Grant

Chad Paton PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Foods and Nutrition and Department of Food Science and Technology  received $9,000  funding  from the Obesity Initiative and $750 from each of his departments and $1,500 from the UGA Office of Research in support of his  efforts to generate additional preliminary evidence to support his project: Metabolic, nutritional, and genetic regulation of PYY in the intestinal L-cell.

Obesity Initiative Fall 2019 Resubmission Grant

Don Harn PhD, Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine received $9,000  funding  from the Obesity Initiative and $1,250 from his department and $1,250 from the UGA Office of Research in support of his  efforts to generatae additional preliminary evidence to support his project: Identification of Cellular Receptros for Human Milk Oligosaccharide (HMO) Conjugates on Macrophages, Adipocytes, and Hepatocytes.