Upcoming Events

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Join us for this year's ORI Fall Seminar Series! Balancing the Scale: Navigating the Complex Interplay of Weight Loss Medications, Timed Eating, and Physical Activity. For more details on all presentations.

• 10/16/2024 meeting recording and slides for Dr. Deborah J. Clegg's presentation on Weight Loss Medications: The Largest Human Uncontrolled Trial! What We Know and What We Need to Learn! 

 

• 10/30/2024 Register Here!

Dr. Grant Tinsley will present on Fasting Interventions for Body Composition Modification. 

 

• 11/13/2024 Register Here!

Dr. Kembra Albracht-Schulte will present on The Key Role of Physical Activity in the Era of Anti-Obesity Medications: Essential Benefits Beyond the Scale. 

 

Are you an undergraduate student looking for a paid internship?

Applications are currently open to the (Fall 2025- Spring 2026) USDA REEU Nutrition BEST Program! The program supports underrepresented students who are transferred from community colleges or from Texas Tech University (TTU) to engage in research and internship opportunities while improving their skills in community nutrition, agriculture, health, and obesity prevention. If you have any questions about how to participate, what it is, and our goals, don't hesitate to contact us.

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News & Announcements

Let us come together to celebrate and honor some of our most esteemed ORI members who have recently achieved remarkable milestones in their respective fields!

• We want to celebrate with Dr. Danielle E. Levitt, along with Dr. Hui-Ying Luk of the Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, for being awarded an R01 from the National Institute on Aging (2024-2029) for $3,501,732 with additional TTU and TTUHSC support from Drs. Fangyuan Zhang as Co-Investigator, Heather Vellers as Collaborator, Leslie Shen as Consultant, and Rama Chemitiganti as Safety Officer. The overarching goal of this project is to test local heat therapy as an alternative method to improve muscle architecture, glycemic control, and subsequent exercise adaptations and decrease frailty risk in older adults with prediabetes, with TRPV1 as an underlying mechanism, including a 2-phase clinical trial complemented by cell culture-based mechanistic studies. In addition, she received the Young Investigator grant ($24,000) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation; Co-I Drs. Jacob Mota, Arturo Figueroa, and collaborators Jonathan Singer and Marc Lochbaum. Resveratrol-mediated changes in extracellular vesicle microRNA cargo as a novel contributor to resistance training-induced skeletal muscle adaptations in older adults. They aim to determine resistance training- and resveratrol-mediated changes in the miRNA profile of circulating extracellular vesicles and their relationship with muscle strength and hypertrophy adaptations in older adults.
• Let’s congratulate our esteemed Dr. Munmun Chattopadhyay, who received a $3.1M National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant at Texas Tech Health El Paso jointly with the University of Texas at Dallas to uncover new treatments for diabetic painful neuropathy that could potentially reduce reliance on opioids.
• We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa as the inaugural executive director of the Institute for One Health Innovation (OHI), effective July 1. This appointment represents a unique collaborative effort between Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to collectively advance the health of animals, humans and our ecosystem. Dr. Moustaïd-Moussa's wealth of experience and expertise will be instrumental in forging programs and opportunities to unify all facets of One Health research across the Texas Tech University System.
• The Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) has chosen to honor Dr. Mary Murimi with the Helen Denning Ullrich Annual Award for Lifetime Excellence in Nutrition Education, a highly esteemed recognition in our field. This award is a testament to her exceptional contributions and 20-plus years of exemplary service in the field of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
• Our very own Dr. Jannette M. Dufour has been honored with the TTUHSC SOM Dean’s Basic Science Teaching Award for Year One and the TTUHSC GSBS Dean’s Teaching Award for Graduate Medical Education Sciences, adding to her already impressive list of accolades: Cover Photo in Biomedicines and Women in Andrology Lecture from the American Society for Andrology.

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