Current and Past Colorado NORC Pilot Awardees

Funding Year 2024

Funding Year 2023

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Funding Year 2022

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Funding Year 2021

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Funding Year 2020

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Funding Year 2019

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Funding Year 2018

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Funding Year 2017

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Funding Year 2016

Funding Year 2015

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Funding Year 2014

Josiane Broussard

Josiane Broussard PhD

Affiliate
  • Department of Integrative Physiology
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Dates of Funding: 2017-2019
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Peripheral Metabolic Tissues
Short nightly sleep duration and untreated sleep disorders are now recognized as risk factors for metabolic diseases with more than 35%of Americans sleeping less than the recommended 7 hours/night. Acute, experimental sleep restriction studies have demonstrated inadequate sleep alters glucose homeostasis, primarily by decreasing whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanisms responsible for the adverse effect of sleep restriction on insulin sensitivity are not known and understanding the effects of sleep restriction on other metabolic tissues is in its infancy. Our long-term goal is to demonstrate the importance of adequate sleep duration and to establish sleep as a third pillar of health—in addition to diet and exercise—in the maintenance of cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. The overall objective for this project is to determine how insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity in peripheral metabolic tissues biopsied from healthy young lean men and women after normal and insufficient sleep.

Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)

CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center

12348 East Montview Boulevard

Aurora, CO 80045


norc@cuanschutz.edu

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