New York University Medical Center

“Braking Inflammation in Obesity & Metabolic Dysfunction: Translational and Therapeutic Opportunities”

Center Director: Ann Marie Schmidt, MD

Basic Project PI: Ann Marie Schmidt, MD

RAGE/DIAPH1: Inflammation and Suppression of Energy Expenditure in Obesity - Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies

Clinical Project PI: Ira J. Goldberg, MD

Obesity, Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk

Population Project PI: Mary Ann Sevick, ScD, RN

Alternative technology-supported behavioral weight loss intervention programs

University of Alabama at Birmingham

“UAB Strategically Focused Obesity Center (SFOC): Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity”

Center Director: W. Timothy Garvey, MD

Basic Project PI: W. Timothy Garvey, MD

Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity in Mouse Models of in Utero Stress

Clinical Project PI: Lorie Harper, MD

Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity: Antenatal Mother and Beyond Birth Offspring

Population Project PI: Paula C. Chandler-Laney, PhD

Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity in a Cohort of mother-child dyads

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

“Toward Obesity Precision Medicine: Promise of the Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor”

Center Director: Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD

Basic Project PI: Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor and cardiometabolic health

Clinical Project PI: Nancy J. Brown, MD

Vascular effects of GLP-1 receptor activation

Population Project PI: Nancy J. Cox, PhD

Genome and Phenome Studies on Obesity and CVD to Dissect GLP1R Mechanism