Quantify the impact of sleep, diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements on weight management
Current status
Animal protocol approved
Pending Funding to initiate
Long-term Goal
Develop objective tool for monitoring compliance with weight management interventions to personalized regimens to optimize weight management
Managing Menopausal Symptoms
Primary Objective
Evaluate the safety of the class of phytoestrogens nutritional/herbal supplements and define binding affinity on estrogen receptor and effect on hormone-mediated pathways
Current Status
Completed in vitro screening, estrogen binding affinity assays and animal studies (breast, ovarian, endometrial and cervical cancer)
Long-term Goal
Identify nutritional/herbal supplement(s) regimen that can safely be used to elevate menopausal symptoms and NOT increase the risk for hormone-mediated cancers.