# Childhood Obesity Research Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $196,044

## Abstract

Abstract/Summary - CORC
The goal of the newly proposed Childhood Obesity Research Core (CORC) is to support a
robust translational research infrastructure for basic, clinical, and translational researchers
focused on childhood nutrition and obesity. The CORC takes advantage of the
accomplishments of Momentum Center, a university-wide and interdisciplinary childhood obesity
center established in 2013, which has provided research infrastructure, funding, and outreach to
childhood obesity researchers and MNORC members. The CORC addresses major barriers
identified by childhood obesity investigators at the University of Michigan, related to following
barriers to research: barriers with accessing electronic health record (EHR) data for research,
barriers with identifying and accessing unique populations of children for observational and
interventional studies, and barriers with developing health IT tools for research tasks/studies.
The CORC therefore leverages the robust health information technology (IT) ecosystem at
Michigan Medicine as a platform for conducting translational research embedded in the
healthcare delivery system. Researchers will be provided with:
(1) Access to a centralized repository of EHR data for over 200,000 children seen at Michigan
Medicine between 2012 to present, and the opportunity to utilize the repository to support
prospective and interventional clinical, behavioral, and health outcomes research in a
longitudinal cohort of over 41,000+ children currently being seen across nine community-based
primary care pediatric clinics, of whom 10,000+ have linkages to maternal health data;
(2) Services to support the integration of childhood obesity research into the delivery system
including the design and development of customized provider- and patient-facing health IT tools;
consultation on study design, IRB, and data analysis; access to newborn screening specimens
and national EHR data; and support for subject recruitment and coordinated biospecimen
collection; and
(3) Access to existing data and biospecimens from local and international pediatric and maternal
cohorts focused on nutrition, obesity, growth, and development.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10866412
- **Project number:** 5P30DK089503-15
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Joyce Lee
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $196,044
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-07-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10866412

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10866412, Childhood Obesity Research Core (5P30DK089503-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10866412. Licensed CC0.

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