Nutrition Obesity Research Centers Grant Program

National Institutes of Health, otherwise known as the NIH is a federal government agency that operates under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that is essentially designed to encourage and support the country's biomedical and health-related research studies.

Grants and incentives from the NIH are all designed to contribute to the achievement of its overall agency mission is to "seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and apply this knowledge to improve health, extend life and reduce the burden of disease and disability. "

In an effort to support this mission, the National Institutes of Health was formed in cooperation with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to sanction and nutritional Obesity Research Center Grant Program, which both agencies propose to require approved programs to wanted to establish the basic centers that will be a key part of a comprehensive program of nutrition and obesity research.

Initially, the program was established to put together a variety of basic science and clinical investigators from several areas of the discipline, the end goal of improving and expanding the effectiveness of research related to nutritional sciences and obesity, and other related disorders.

The reference framework of this program, the research center of the core is defined as "the identification of units within a college or medical center or a consortium of co-operation of facilities, including associated universities."

Research studies that will be supported in the framework of these basic centers are those that focus solely on food science and / or obesity, as well as several related disorders.

and the NIH NIDDK is necessary that the grant is submitted to them contains basic administrative plan that will give way to the core centers will be run and managed.

In addition, NIH and NIDDK also noted that the core of the center will be required to maintain your own website, the administrative center responsible for the creation, content, and maintenance.

funding agencies mentioned above are ready to manage the total amount of $ 1,250,000 to support the activities covered under Nutrition Obesity Research Centers Grant Program.

Institutions and organizations that will be taken into account the right to apply under this program are as follows:

), the State Government, Government Country, City or District government, special district governments

b) An independent school districts, public and state controlled institutions of higher education

c) Native American governments

d) Private non-profit private membership

e) a private institution of higher education

f), Faith-based or community-based organizations and regional affiliation.