New Award Recipient

July 15, 2013

Dr. Anne Cappola’s receives a new K24 Midcareer Investigator award. The award is effective 07/15/13 and is for 5 years at $182k (rounded) a year.

New Award Recipient

July 8, 2013

Dr. Joseph Baur has been awarded a University Research Fund Award for $50,000 for August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2014 for "Control of Adipocyte Function and Fate by mTORC2.

AMA Declares Obesity a Disease

June 19, 2013

The American Medical Association voted to declare obesity a disease, a move that effectively defines 78 million American adults and 12 million children as having a medical condition requiring treatment, the Los Angeles Times reports.

"As things stand now, primary care physicians tend to look at obesity as a behavior problem," said Rexford Ahima, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. "This will force primary care physicians to address it, even if we don't have a cure for it." The new designation follows a steep 30-year climb in Americans' weight — and growing public concern over the resulting tidal wave of expensive health problems. Read Los Angeles Times article

New Award Recipient

June 15, 2013

Dr. David Steger receiveds a new five year R01 with an effective date of June 15, 2013.