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
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.
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.
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.
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.