About Us


The overall goals of the Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Center

  • Facilitate the interaction between basic, clinical and population-based researchers in nutrition, obesity and related metabolic disorders.
  • Support Core Laboratories to provide a range of basic, clinical and translational research tools to Research Base investigators.
  • Provide expertise and infrastructure to promote the integration of basic research technologies into clinical studies.
  • Provide biostatistical design, data base management and bioinformatics tools for the Research Base.
  • Support a Demonstration Unit, the Investigational Weight Management Clinic, which will combine state of-the-art clinical care and translational research in developing methodologies and tools to integrated advanced human phenotyping in the clinical setting.
  • Facilitate access to human subjects and phenotypic data for obesity and obesity-related research.
  • Evaluate, refine, and apply new knowledge regarding nutrition interventions, obesity and related disorders in clinical and population-based research.
  • Enrich the intellectual and educational environment for researchers in obesity and nutrition through seminars, symposia, classes and clinical research and clinical care opportunities, for faculty, students and other trainees.
  • Recruit, train, motivate and retain basic, clinical, and population-based researchers in the area of nutrition interventions and obesity and other metabolic disorders.
  • Disseminate knowledge to the research community and to the public about the causes, consequences and treatments of nutrition, obesity and obesity-related disorders so that public policy decisions about healthcare resources can be made in an informed environment.