# Research Core > **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · 2024 · $461,621 ## Abstract PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT – RESEARCH CORE COMPONENT Fundamental to effectively studying nutrition and women’s health is having access to equipment and expertise needed for nutritional status and health assessment. This includes equipment for various measurements of anthropometry (e.g., weight, body composition), biochemical measurements (e.g., blood chemistries), clinical assessments (e.g., signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies), and dietary assessments (e.g., food record analysis). In addition, many researchers studying nutrition use indirect calorimetry and stable isotope method- ology, and those conducting dietary intervention studies require the use of a kitchen. Our long-term goal is to support a critical mass of multidisciplinary scientists synergistically studying nutrition and women’s health at the University of Idaho. A primary objective in this Phase 1 COBRE Research Core is to establish a new and unique Nutrition Analytics Core Laboratory (NACL). The NACL will be comprised collectively of 1) a unique main suite of laboratories serving as its ‘hub’ and 2) a network of satellite laboratories and associated ‘Faculty Subject Matter Experts.’ The main NACL hub laboratory suite will be comprised of a Wet Chemistry Labora- tory, a Computer Laboratory, a Body Composition Laboratory, a Resting Metabolic Rate Laboratory, and a Metabolic Kitchen. The NACL’s hub and satellite laboratories will be easily accessible by all faculty and staff looking to leverage their broad capacities for research related to nutrition and women’s health. We will accom- plish our goal through three aims: 1) establish the NACL, a new and unique research facility to serve the scien- tific needs of the research projects in this COBRE for Nutrition and Women’s Health, 2) operate the NACL us- ing best practices that include a comprehensive business plan, and 3) open the NACL to all COBRE and non- COBRE scientists. PD/PI McGuire will provide broad oversight to the NACL which will be directed by Dr. Janet Williams. Day-to-day operations will be overseen by a dedicated Research Support Specialist. The COBRE in Nutrition and Women’s Health, including the NACL, will build institutional critical mass and capacity in nutri- tion and women’s health research with the goal of establishing an international reputation within this scientific theme. The NACL is innovative in that it builds a comprehensive facility that will eventually address nearly all aspects of data collection and analyses pertinent to nutrition research. It will span the needs of scientists con- ducting basic biological experiments to those focused on social or behavioral aspects of nutrition and those developing novel computational approaches to understand the impacts of nutrition on women’s health across the lifespan. The NACL will be impactful because it will allow University of Idaho researchers and regional col- laborators unparalleled ability to study the broad range of nutrients, physiological conditio... ## Key facts - **NIH application ID:** 10770790 - **Project number:** 1P20GM152304-01 - **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO - **Principal Investigator:** Janet E. Williams - **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.) - **Funding institute:** NIH - **Fiscal year:** 2024 - **Award amount:** $461,621 - **Award type:** 1 - **Project period:** 2024-03-11 → 2029-01-31 ## Primary source NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10770790 ## Citation > US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10770790, Research Core (1P20GM152304-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10770790. Licensed CC0. --- *[NIH grants dataset](/datasets/nih-grants) · CC0 1.0*