# Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center

> **NIH NIH P30** · BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER · 2021 · $16,435

## Abstract

Project Summary
The Boston Obesity Nutrition Center (BNORC) was founded in 1992 and has been administratively based at
Boston Medical Center (BMC) for the past 20 years. The BNORC consortium is a collaboration consisting of
Boston University School of Medicine, Tufts University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard
School of Public Health and serves nutrition and obesity scientists in the greater Boston area. The overall
objective of BNORC is to 1) facilitate and support the conduct of cutting edge basic, translational and clinical
research in the fields of nutrition and obesity science, and 2) provide resources and educational opportunities
that enrich the training of new investigators and promote multi- and interdisciplinary research collaborations.
Five Cores serve these goals: A) Administrative (B. E. Corkey, Director, G. Blackburn and C. Apovian, Clinical
Associate Directors and A. S. Greenberg, Pilot and Feasibility Associate Director), B) Adipose Biology and
Nutrient Metabolism (B. E. Corkey and S. R. Farmer, Co-Directors), C) Epidemiology and Genetics (F. Hu and
J. Chavarro, Directors), D) Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics (E. Rosen, Director, and L. Tsai, Associate
Director), and E) Transgenic (B. Lowell, Director). The BNORC research base includes 123 members with $49
million of nutrition- and obesity-related federal funding ($13,709,527 (29%) NIDDK and 71% other federal or
national). These scientists address basic, clinical and population aspects of three interrelated themes: 1)
Nutrient Metabolism in Health and Disease; 2) Brain Control of Feeding Behavior and Metabolism; and 3)
Environment and Genetic Influences on Obesity and Related Chronic Diseases. In the past funding period our
basic research Cores have evolved to better support the research needs of basic scientists who need state-of-
the-art tools to evaluate genetic, genomic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, and functional genomic approaches to
understand the biological underpinning that drive food intake and metabolism and how these become
dysfunctional in obesity. The Epidemiology and Genetics core provides members who conduct
epidemiological and clinical research, as well as basic researchers seeking to translate their findings, with
access to large dataset to assess lifestyle (diet, physical activity) and genetic contributions to the development
of obesity and related diseases. Core support high impact research by our members and fosters collaborative
efforts. Substantial resources are dedicated to our Pilot and Feasibility Program that continues to support the
early independent careers of many prominent scientists in the field.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10408203
- **Project number:** 3P30DK046200-29S2
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** ANDREW S GREENBERG
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $16,435
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1997-09-30 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10408203

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10408203, Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (3P30DK046200-29S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10408203. Licensed CC0.

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