# Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention

> **NIH NIH P20** · ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RES INST · 2021 · $242,670

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Childhood obesity is a growing threat to public health in the United States. The goal of the Center for
Childhood Obesity Prevention (CCOP) at Arkansas Children's Research Institute (ACRI) is to reduce childhood
obesity rates in children through integrated, interdisciplinary and translational research. In line with the goals of
the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) funding mechanism, to support the establishment
and development of innovative, state-of-the-art biomedical research centers at institutions in Institutional
Development Award-eligible states, the CCOP has established a Metabolism and Bioenergetics Core (MBC) to
make critical biomedical research services available to CCOP investigators.
This instrumentation supplement application will be used to purchase a rodent metabolic and behavioral
phenotyping system. This key instrumentation will allow the MBC to provide important rodent phenotyping
services to CCOP investigators. Accordingly, this supplement will significantly enhance access for CCOP
investigators to state-of-the-art metabolic and behavioral phenotyping instrumentation.
Beyond obesity, alterations in how our bodies metabolize and partition fuel is linked to the etiology of several
chronic diseases. Accordingly, platforms that accurately determine rodent feeding behavior, activity, substrate
metabolism and energy expenditure in real-time provide a wealth of important phenotypic data that increase
the impact of basic research employing rodent models. Since ACRI is home to two National Institutes for
General Medical Sciences COBRE awards, this instrumentation supplement is well positioned to significantly
enhance the impact of numerous NIGMS funded research projects by enhancing access to critical
instrumentation.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10397299
- **Project number:** 3P20GM109096-06S1
- **Recipient organization:** ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RES INST
- **Principal Investigator:** JUDITH Lynne WEBER
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $242,670
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2016-08-01 → 2026-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10397299

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10397299, Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention (3P20GM109096-06S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10397299. Licensed CC0.

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