John Kirwan
Executive Director and Professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center - Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US
John Kirwan's Colleagues at Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Tiffany Stewart
Coates Endowed Professor and Director, Behavior Technology Laboratory: Health, Performance, and Resilience
John Kirwan's Contact Details
(225) 763-2511
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
John Kirwan's Company Details
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a campus of Louisiana State University, is a world-renowned leader at the forefront of medical discoveries as it relates to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and dementia. Our mission is to improve human health throughout the lifespan. Today, our center houses almost 500 employees, 14 research laboratories, 17 core service laboratories, and a team of over 80 scientists and physicians. There are three NIH Centers of Excellence at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, the Center for Research on Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome (BRC), the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), and the Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC). Our scientists conduct basic, clinical, and population health research and are dedicated to solving the world-wide obesity epidemic by 2040.