Primary Recipient

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$694,349.00

Award Date

9/03/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The incidence of obesity worldwide continues to escalate with the spread of the Western diet and with it there has been a corresponding increase in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, end-stage renal disease and other obesity-related disorders. Of all the c