Increasing beige fat to treat obesity

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1078707

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Beige fat is a recently described kind of fat which instead of storing fat and contributing to obesity burns energy and burns glucose. It helps to combat obesity and diabetes. If it could be increased and switched on, it would help to treat obesity and diabetes. This grant will study a new pathway to try to increase the amount of beige fat and to increase its activity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $983,533.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Nutritional Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

diabetes mellitus | diabetes prevention | fat metabolism | iron chelators | obesity

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