Biology Professor Gets $2.5 Million MERIT Award To Study How Body Breaks Down Fat
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
Dr. Timothy J. Bartness, a Regents' Professor of Biology and director of the Center for Obesity Reversal at Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $2.5 million renewal of the MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to study lipolysis, the breakdown of body fat, and thermogenesis, or heat production, from specialized fat cells.