# UAB NORC Core A - Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 2020 · $254,255

## Abstract

UAB’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) has as its long-range mission to reduce the rates of obesity
and improve human health and well-being by advancing knowledge and developing innovative solutions for
nutrition and obesity through collaborative and interdisciplinary research. We do this by supporting and growing
an investigator base of active, funded nutrition and obesity researchers at our institution and facilitating their
ability to conduct the most rigorous and insightful research possible. The Administrative Core serves to
convene this base of research investigators, to help to grow it by recruiting new investigators into the field of
nutrition and obesity from both within and beyond UAB, and to train the next generation of nutrition and obesity
research scientists. We also support the scientific community interested in nutrition and obesity research
beyond the walls of our institution through our Enrichment Program, including a formal program of national
short courses and other offerings supported by additional funds raised beyond those of our NIDDK NORC P30.
The Administrative Core takes responsibility for the careful management of all elements of the NORC,
including oversight of the cores; interactions with and growth of the membership; announcement, selection,
and administration of the Pilot and Feasibility grants; implementation of our training and education programs;
fostering growth with our clinical element; strengthening communications with NIH and UAB’s administration;
facilitating interactions with other NORCs; continually updating the NORC’s website; philanthropic fundraising
to support the NORC’s activities, which resulted in the establishment of two endowed professorships in
energetics and healthy lifestyles (the Lavoisier Professorship and the Quetelet Professorship) and one
endowed research fund this past cycle; fiscal management; convening, soliciting, and adapting to feedback
from the NORC internal and external advisory committees; and finally, ensuring the timely execution of all
administrative and regulatory obligations.
The Administrative Core works diligently and proactively to not only meet the objectives above but create and
foster the conditions that allow our investigators to pursue their scientific ideas with maximal efficiency, ease,
and rigor, while also inspiring our current and future investigators to conduct ever more creative and impactful
research on nutrition and obesity.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9932965
- **Project number:** 5P30DK056336-19
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID B ALLISON
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $254,255
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9932965

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9932965, UAB NORC Core A - Administrative Core (5P30DK056336-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9932965. Licensed CC0.

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