Welcome to the BRANCH Lab for Brain Regulation of Appetite, Nutrition, Cognition, &Health Lab at USC.
The BRANCH Lab has two major research programs: (i) Neuroendocrine regulation of appetite & glucose homeostasis (ii) Maternal-fetal programming for obesity & diabetes
Our translational research program addresses questions from a broad perspective by combining a number of disciplines (neuroscience, physiology, nutrition, psychology) and novel techniques to tackle the roots of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.