The Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), founded by Roland L. Weinsier, M.D., Dr.PH., is one of only 11 NIH-funded research centers established to foster a multidisciplinary approach to basic, clinical, and translational research and research training with an emphasis on understanding the causal factors underlying nutrition and obesity-related health problems and the generation and evaluation of evidence on their consequences, prevention, and alleviation. The UAB NORC is also a university-wide interdisciplinary research center (UWIRC). The current director of the NORC, James O Hill, Ph.D., succeeded David B. Allison, Ph.D., in 2018.