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.