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Core that provides users with expertise and phenotyping services for different stages in life. It specifically provides services for obesity research, unique populations (pregnant women, children, infants, etc.), and clinical and translational studies through their Energy Balance subcore and Behavioral subcore.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core facility that is responsible for managing and organizing the activities of the internal governance committee and the external advisory board, promoting the techniques, methodologies, instrumentation, and resources offered by the core facilities, and supporting the integration of bioinformatics, biostatistics, clinical research, and metabolomics into clinical and translational research.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Research center that supports clinical investigation addressing the etiology of nutritionally induced chronic diseases across the entire age span, from gestational and perinatal development through childhood and adolescence. It provides core services to promote the investigations around the theme of molecular mechanisms of nutritional programming induced by environmental factors.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core which provides obesity and other medical eating disorder researchers with specialized measurements in body composition, energy expenditure, imaging analysis, and adipose tissue analysis in human subjects.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core whose goal is to assist investigators in applying the tools and technologies of molecular genetics and genomics to elucidate the molecular-genetic bases of obesity and its comorbidities. Its services include consultation on study design, analysis, and applicable molecular biological techniques and developing and making research tools and reagents.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Provides scientific cores including Molecular Mechanisms Core (genomics and cellular), Human Phenotyping Core (characterization of phenotypes predisposing to obesity and metabolic syndrome and behavioral interventions to counteract those) and Animal Models and Phenotyping Core. Includes organizing administrative process to announce, collect, review and award Pilot and Feasibility grants, setting criteria for use of core facilities, and maintaining access to data management services.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that provides biostatistical consultation to other investigators who are doing research in the fields of obesity and nutrition at University of Maryland and the Baltimore VA Medical Center. It aims to develop new methods for data collection data from older subjects.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that utilizes investigator-derived DNA constructs or investigator derived (or obtained) genetically modified embryonic stem cells to create founder transgenic organisms that can be used to address questions relevant to obesity, diabetes and nutrition, including questions related to brain control of feeding, metabolism and reward.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that provides investigators with access to adipose tissue samples from well-characterized subjects. It also assists investigators with analysis of adipose tissue morphology and metabolism, specialized cell and organ culture methods, and analysis of gene and protein expression.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that facilitates the conduct of clinical nutrition and obesity research. Its team of experts in nutrition, exercise physiology, body composition, metabolism and behavioral therapy aim to assist and train NORCH investigators in the skills necessary to conduct clinical nutrition and obesity research.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Center that fosters multidisciplinary research approaches to understanding the impact of nutrition on risk for chronic disease and aims to translate this knowledge into effective clinical treatments and prevention efforts.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that provides NORCH investigators with access to model creation and detailed metabolic phenotyping. Its services include: model generation, including genomic targeting and production of metabolically relevant cell types; metabolic characterization of patient-derived, user-provided, or model generated samples; consultation on model development and metabolic characterization projects; and training for Core techniques in model generation and detailed metabolic characterization.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that provides consultations for study design and analysis, preparation of grant applications, preparation of statistical methods and results for manuscripts on completed studies, responses to reviewer comments for manuscript resubmissions, identification of possible long term statistical collaborators for grants.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that facilitates the application of genomics, bioinformatics, cell biology, and immunology techniques to nutrition and metabolic research.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that links a variety of imaging facilities providing services to NORCH investigators who currently require or plan to conduct human studies using imaging research instrumentation and expertise. Its goal is to provide users with access to imaging technology for in-vivo phenotyping of human tissues for nutrition, obesity and metabolism studies.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that provides administrative support and direction to all of the participating institutions and BNORC members. These services include financial management, payment requests, policy development and data management.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that supports and coordinates the NORCH and all the components of the center. It provides insight into the processes that govern the center, to recruit and vet new members, and to communicate with all our members about center happenings.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core provides services to investigators within BNORC and the Boston area looking to expand their research using state-of-the-art genomic applications. This core utilizes technologies and sequencing platforms to help identify the complex molecular mechanisms underlying human disease.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Research center at Harvard University that seeks to establish a research environment which encourages the approach to defining common clinical nutrition research problems. It aims to promote, facilitate and enhance research relating to nutrition and health within the Boston area.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that provides a central focus to translate the findings from clinical and cellular studies to applications in ongoing epidemiologic studies.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen