Our Impact This Year
CARE researchers Will Morgan, Dr. Kelsie Forbush, near the Mediterranean Sea in Sitges, Spain during the Eating Disorders Research Society 2024 annual meeting.
CARE coordinators Anjali Sharma and Emily Like stand in front of one of Emily's posters at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2024 convention.
The CARE team has experienced a productive year, from presenting our findings at scientific research conferences, to working with participants all across the country, to teaching the next generation of eating disorder researchers. We started this year as a lab on KU’s campus, but recently, KU recognized the quality of our work and granted us research center designation within the university’s Life Span Institute.
With two full-time faculty, three lab coordinators, five graduate students, and the 20 undergraduate research assistants who have committed time to the center in 2024, it’s no wonder we’ve been able to make leaps and bounds with our research! Here are a few numbers showing the strength of CARE output in the last year.
23 scientific papers were published by CARE researchers between 2023 and 2024.
18 first author posters and presentations were given by CARE researchers at both national and international conferences.
CARE has $7.74 million in grant funding for active studies and projects that wrapped up in 2024.