Credit: NDSU
Some people who undergo weight loss surgery to combat obesity don’t lose the pounds they expect or they gain weight back. Dr. Kristine Steffen in pharmaceutical sciences at North Dakota State University, Fargo, is working to find out why. Steffen received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a five-year study, as part of a research team at seven institutions across the U.S. Data and analysis from the study will be instrumental in moving toward individualized medicine in caring for patients with obesity that seek bariatric surgery, according to Steffen.