Selected Grants
Neurobiology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · 2024 - 2029Endocrinology and Metabolism Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2024 - 2029Gut epithelial control of nutrient reward
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2024 - 2028Bacteria sensory transduction from gut to brain to modulate behavior
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2023 - 2028Medical Scientist Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2022 - 2027Duke Training Grant in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 1988 - 2027A substrate for durable gut-brain signaling
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2027Bitter chemosensation from gut to brain
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2024 - 2027Rapid sugar sensing from gut to brain
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2023 - 2026Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2021 - 2026Gut glutamatergic neurotransmission in sugar preference
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2021 - 2026Harnessing the neuroepithelial gut-brain circuit in binge eating disorder
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Brain and Behavior Research Foundation · 2024 - 2026Leica Stellaris Confocal for a Campus-wide Shared Resource
EquipmentMinor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2025Efferent modulation of neuropod cells in the small intestine
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2025The efferent synapse in neuropod cells
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024A gut brain neural circuit relevant to mental illnesses
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024Neural sensing of gut bacteria
FellowshipCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2024The neurotransmitter for calorie
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2024Sensing Dietary Amino Acids from Gut to Brain
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2023Quantifying Enteric Metabolism of Branched-chain Amino Acids in Relation to Other Dietary and Microbiota Nutrients
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2023NCDRC Pilot: Gut-Brain Neurotransmission for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Wake Forest University School Of Medicine · 2022 - 2023Medical Scientist Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1997 - 2022Enteroendocrine cells sense gut bacteria and activate a gut-brain pathway
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2021Transmission electron microscope (TEM)
EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021Organization and Function of Cellular Structure
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020Gut-Brain Neurocircuit Modulating Eating Behavior
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2019Closed-loop sacral nerve stimulation for inflammation - Phase I -
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Johns Hopkins University · 2015 - 2019Illuminating a gut-brain neural path for sensory signaling and pathogens
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dana Foundation · 2016 - 2019Tasting gut bacteria
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2019Role of TLRs in human enteroendocrine cells
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Gastroenterological Association · 2018 - 2019Steering Brain Behaviors Using Programmable Bacteria
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Caribou Biosciences, Inc. · 2018 - 2019Serial Block Face Scanning Electron Microscope
EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018Functional mapping of efferent gut neuroepithelial circuits
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018Pilot Grant for Gastrointestinal Biology Research
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease · 2015 - 2016Regulation of Intestinal PYY cell function
FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2014External Relationships
- Gastronauts Foundation, Inc.
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