Welcome to ACERO
Goals
The principal aim of ACERO is to promote collaboration between scientists within the Aberdeen area who have interests in the study of energy balance and regulation in the context of the development of obesity.
The goal of fostering such collaboration is to provide a constructive environment, which will enable full exploration and exploitation of ideas concerning the problem of energy imbalance and obesity.
It is hoped that the existence of ACERO will stimulate novel avenues of research which might otherwise have remained neglected.
The ultimate scientific goal is to further our understanding of the physiological basis of the pathology underpinning the development of obesity with a view to developing novel treatments for it.
We envisage an interdisciplinary approach covering aspects of the phenomenon from molecules to behaviour, and drawing in particular on information from novel animal models, will not only benefit our understanding of the phenomenon of obesity but will also have implications for other phenomena related to energy and nutrient balance - such as animal growth.