University Center for Obesity Research
Vision:
To be excellence specializing center in the research on obesity and associated diseases.
Message:
Conducting excellence medical research in the field of obesity, and laying the fruitful foundations of cooperation between different scientific disciplines, and training of domestic staff to transfer and development of modern biotechnology.
The main objective:
Study of Obesity and the associated diseases in the field of basic and clinical research and studies on the community; using modern techniques, and methods of molecular biology, and methods o bioinformatics; to find accurate diagnostic methods, and the development of effective treatments for the prevention and complications, treatment of obesity
Other objectives:
- Formation of a scientific base of personnel and equipment, clinical laboratory capable of transmitting modern biotechnology and the using and developing it .
- Publication of outstanding research in the field of obesity in specialized international journals.
- The establishment of channels of communication and exchanging of experiences with the world's leading centers of research in obesity.
- Participation with community of health education about obesity, its dangers, and how to prevent them of obesity ; for community members who enjoying good health and characteristic productivity .
Web site: http://www.obesitycenter.edu.sa