Service cores Our OrgANIZATION

Moving, Learning, and Thriving through Scientific Discovery

Research within the Pepper Center is organized within five core areas. You may request a service related to a specific research core.

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Clinical Research Core

The Clinical Research Core provides expertise for conducting and translating clinical research across the spectrum of investigation of both behavioral and pharmaceutical clinical trials . It also engages with observational studies of risk and outcomes related to mobility and prevention of disability.  

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Metabolism and Translational Science Core

The Metabolism and Translational Science Core research asserts that healthy aging depends upon knowledge of specific protein, RNA, and DNA biomarkers, as well as measurements of metabolism in isolated mitochondria and white blood cells. 

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Biostatistics Core

The Biostatistics Core creates operational definitions for outcome variables and other covariates to be measured, analyzes pilot/exploratory studies to obtain data useful for planning future studies, provides pre-study and pre-proposal study design guidance: performs power analyses, calculates appropriate sample size for testing intervention effects and develops statistical analysis plans.

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Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Core

The Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence (DIAL-AI) Core provides a central hub of expertise in computer science, biomedical engineering, biomedical  informatics, data science, applied technology, epidemiology, and content expertise in the assessment of mobility.

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Systems Physiology and Multi-omics Core

The Systems Physiology and Omics Core has expertise in systemic measures of mouse activity, circadian rhythms and  bioinformatics expertise for genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics datasets metabolism and feeding.