# UAB NORC Core B: Metabolism Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 2020 · $179,719

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY – Metabolism Core
The Metabolism Core provides state-of-the-art, cost-effective, centralized analytical services to ongoing funded
and pilot nutrition-obesity research projects for assessment of human body composition, body fat distribution,
energy expenditure, and substrate metabolism. Toward this end, the Core maintains instruments, collects and
provides quality control data, maintains and offers a web-based scheduling system, and provides staffing by
trained technical personnel for a broad suite of measures and services that can accommodate the needs of small
pilot studies and student projects up to large R01-level protocols. In addition, the Metabolism Core promotes
multi-disciplinary research and training in clinical nutrition and obesity across the UAB campus, and offers
training, advice, and instruction to students, fellows, and faculty. Lastly, the Metabolism Core contributes to the
development, evolution, and expansion of methodology in fields of nutrition and obesity at UAB by implementing
new technology and validating existing methodology in specific populations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9932967
- **Project number:** 5P30DK056336-19
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
- **Principal Investigator:** BARBARA A GOWER
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $179,719
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9932967

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9932967, UAB NORC Core B: Metabolism Core (5P30DK056336-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9932967. Licensed CC0.

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