National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (RO1 DK 59211); "Risk factors for Type 2 diabetes in Hispanic Adolescents"; [ABSTRACT]

National Cancer Institute (U54 CA 16848); “USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer”; [ABSTRACT]

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (P60 MD002254); “Obesity in Minority Youth in Los Angeles: A Generation At Risk”; [ABSTRACT]

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (5K01DK078858-02); “Circuit Training and Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Type 2 Diabetes in Youth”; [ABSTRACT]

Dr Robert C Atkins Foundation:
“Ethnic differences in adipose and liver gene expression”
“Development and Testing of a 1-Year Maintenance Intervention to Reduce Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Latino and African American Adolescents”

American Diabetes Association: “Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship in Childhood Obesity and Diabetes”