Nutrition and Obesity Research Center
NORC Overview
The goal of the Stanford NORC is to promote basic research and clinical science to drive understanding and technological innovation for nutrition, obesity, and metabolism research and translating our findings to new therapeutics, clinical and behavioral programs, and improvements in metabolic health.
Message from the Leadership
“We have assembled a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative team of investigators from the Stanford Schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts and Sciences, with the goal to better understand the metabolic, psychiatric, nutritional, genetic, and molecular mechanisms underlying obesity and obesity-related disorders.”
Leadership Team
Peter Jackson, PhD
Katrin Svensson, PhD
Pilot and Feasibility Grants
The focus of the NORC Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program is to provide seed funds for any aspect of obesity-related research, including but not limited to basic sciences, economics, population sciences, translational research and clinical research. The P&F program is focused on funding research proposals by early career investigators, investigators who are new to the nutrition and obesity research field and established researchers with ideas for novel and exciting research directions that have outstanding potential to open areas of nutrition and obesity-related research in diverse scientific disciplines at Stanford.
Eric Stice, PhD
Nutrition and Obesity Affinity Group (NORC) Research Seminars
Jonathan Long, PhD,
Associate Professor of Pathology, Stanford University
"Diet, exercise, and the chemical control of energy balance"
May 15th, 2024
3PM - 4PM
Center for Clinical Sciences Research building CCSR 3226
and via Zoom
For more information, click here.
Bay Area Metabolism Meeting BAMM
BAMM started in 2019 as the first metabolism meeting held in the Bay Area. This is an annual one-day symposium hosted by Stanford University and Stanford Diabetes Research Center with a great collection of speakers from metabolism groups all over California, including Stanford, Berkeley, Buck, UC Davis and UCSF. For more information, click here.