Data Science & Analytics
Obesity Hub
Description
A winner of the UNC Vice Chancellor for Research’s Creativity Hubs Initiative, “Heterogeneity in Obesity: Transdisciplinary Approaches for Precision Research and Treatment” is focused on understanding why two people who consume the same diets and exercise equally can have very different susceptibility to weight gain, with the aim of developing treatment approaches that go far beyond the “one-size-fits-all” approach that is so common. The Obesity Hub is a large collaborative project with 27 faculty from 16 departments, six schools, and five centers and institutes.
RENCI's Role
Ashok Krishnamurthy, Deputy Director at RENCI, has taken on a co-Investigator role involving the application of Data Translator to Obesity Hub data. RENCI is using its knowledge-graph work developed for the Data Translator to integrate cohort-based association analyses, model systems data, and previously curated knowledge into a single platform. We are both analyzing the resulting knowledge platform to discover novel insights into the heterogeneity of obesity, and creating an open-source software package to provide this capability to other researchers.
Team Members
Partners
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
- NC TraCS
- UNC Adams School of Dentistry
- UNC Carolina Population Center
- UNC College of Arts & Sciences
- UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
- UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
- UNC Gordon-Larsen Lab
- UNC Nutrition Research Institute
- UNC School of Medicine
- UNC School of Nursing