ITM-UChicago researcher Esra Tasali, MD, received a Clinical Research Award at the Translational Science 2023 conference for her work on sleep health and obesity. Tasali is a Professor in Medicine at UChicago Medicine and the Director of the UChicago Sleep Center. Her research found that sleeping 8.5 hours regularly helps with weight loss and keeping obesity away. Each one-hour increase in the duration of sleep was associated with a decrease in eating about 160 kcal each day, her study found.