Seed Funding Application

Overview

Mission

To win the battle against diabetes, obesity, and CVD through a multi-disciplinary platform and a new angle – family/community-based approach, focusing on early life origins and life-course approach

Specific aims

To investigate the determinants and health consequences of diabetes, obesity and comorbidities based on a life-course approach
To identify and implement sustainable and effective intervention for interrupting the “diabetes begetting diabetes” vicious circle over a woman’s lifespan and across generations, targeting at preconception, pregnancy and postpartum