Selected Grants
Developing strategies to identify candidate individuals for early genetic therapies
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029The Duke Preparing Research scholars In bioMEdical sciences (PRIME): Cancer Research Program
ResearchPreceptor · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2023 - 2028Modulation of STING to enhance the efficacy of treatments for diffuse midline glioma
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Alex's Lemonade Stand · 2024 - 2028Duke ACS Institutional Research Grant
ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. · 2024 - 2026Elucidating Brain Tumor Biology and Response to Radiotherapy Using Cell-Free-DNA Methylation Signatures
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026Genomic and Epigenomic Blood sample Analysis for FIG Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute · 2021 - 2025NINDS Research Education Programs for Residents and Fellows in Neurosurgery
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · 2009 - 2025Characterizing germline and somatic alterations by glioma subtypes and clinical outcome
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stanford University · 2022 - 2025Differences in the anti-glioblastoma immune response across racial/ethnic groups
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sontag Foundation · 2023 - 2025Viral Oncology Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1980 - 20256-Thio-Deoxyguanosine: A novel telomerase-mediated therapy for oligodendroglioma linking cell-intrinsic DNA damage to immune activation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Oligo Nation · 2021 - 2024Identifying transplacental correlates of protection against congenital CMV transmission
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. · 2021 - 2022Immune Correlates and Mechanisms of Perinatal Cytomegalovirus Infection and Later lLife ALL Development
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2022Serologic and genomic modifiers of beta-amyloid levels in an immuno-compromised cohort of adult Down syndrome patients
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021 - 2022The role of rare and common variants in genetic predisposition to medulloblastoma
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sontag Foundation · 2017 - 2021Genetic Susceptibility to Pediatric Glioma in Individuals and Diverse populations
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Southern California · 2019 - 20212020 Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alex's Lemonade Stand · 2020 - 2020My Childhood Cancer: Survey Series
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alex's Lemonade Stand · 2018 - 2020Genetic Susceptibility to pediatric Osteosarcoma and Interaction with Measures of Childhood Growth
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alex's Lemonade Stand · 2017 - 2018External Relationships
- American Brain Tumor Association
- BP America, Inc
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- The Sontag Foundation
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