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Key Research Cores To support research efforts, four cores provide state-of-the-art services that augment the capabilities, availability, and budgets of individual NORC investigators: Animal Phenotyping/Metabolism Core Provides an array of blood metabolites and hormones, 50-plus metabolic cages, telemetry measurements of blood pressure, heart rate, core body temperature, and activity, multiple imaging modalities to characterize fat distribution, and hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamps and primary

The UT Southwestern Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) is soliciting proposals for Pilot and Feasibility Grants (P&F) to support studies on nutrition, obesity, and obesity-related disorders. Applications due Nov. 1, 2022

Enrichment Program The Enrichment Program of the UT Southwestern NORC has been designed with three overlying goals in mind. to provide opportunities for the dissemination and exchange of knowledge among UT Southwestern students, principal investigators and their research teams, and health care professionals interested in nutrition and obesity research and in evidence-based clinical care of individuals with obesity. to foster interactions between nutrition and obesity researchers at UT

Women are more susceptible to injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which can expose cartilage to conditions triggering degeneration. UT Southwestern researchers found striking differences in bovine cartilage between males and females long before the end of the animals’ reproductive period. (Photo credit: Getty Images) DALLAS – May 01, 2023 – Researchers have long known there are sex disparities when it comes to the prevalence and severity of knee osteoarthritis, a disease that

(Photo credit: Getty Images) DALLAS – April 15, 2024 – Women who take oral contraceptives may be significantly less likely to experience certain musculoskeletal injuries than women who do not take the drugs or men, according to a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center. The findings, published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise , increase the understanding of the potential protective benefits of stable hormone levels as well as possible concerns about hormone imbalances and

The Quality Assurance and Monitoring Office of the HRPP evaluates and improves human research protections through monitoring, education, and training.

UT Southwestern HRPP offers single IRB (sIRB) opportunities, which allow the IRB of one institution to rely on the IRB review of another.

The Institutional Review Board is primarily concerned with ensuring that the rights, welfare, and privacy of human research participants are protected.

The Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Program at UT Southwestern is divided into two cores: Adult and Pediatric.