Current Grant Support

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (RO1 HD/HL 33064); "Intra-abdominal fat and risk of disease in adolescents"; [NIH Abstract]

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (RO1 DK 59211), "Risk factors for Type 2 diabetes in Hispanic Adolescents"; [Abstract]

National Cancer Institute (U54 CA 16848); “USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer”; [Abstract]

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (P60 MD002254); “Obesity in Minority Youth in Los Angeles: A Generation At Risk”; [Abstract]

Dr Robert C Atkins Foundation; “Ethnic differences in adipose and liver gene expression”

American Diabetes Association “Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship in Childhood Obesity and Diabetes”