Tackling obesity by reducing sugar consumption [ 2018 - ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Prof Selena Bartlett (Principal investigator) ,  Prof Paul Cumming

Brief description The brain plays a major role in the overconsumption of high fat/high sugar foods and this contributes to obesity but it receives little attention when it comes to developing novel treatments. My lab showed that a FDA-approved smoking cessation medication, that is a nicotinic receptor modulator, decreased the overconsumption of sugar. This project aims are to identify which nicotinic receptors and brain circuits are involved in the overconsumption of sucrose to improve treatments for obesity.

Funding Amount $570,531.00

Funding Scheme Project Grants

Notes Standard Project Grant