Research Interests
- ovarian cancer epigenetics
- therapeutic prevention of ovarian cancer recurrence
- development of epigenetic screening tools
- developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD)
- preconceptional environmental impact on the epigenome
- intergenerational and transgenerational epigenetic effects
- in vitro models of cellular differentiation
Selected Grants
Duke Women's Reproductive Health Research Scholars
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2020 - 2030Duke-NCCU Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Child Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Program (DN-IPT)
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2024 - 2029Duke University Program in Environmental Health
Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2019 - 2029Duke KURe Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2013 - 2028Molecular Mechanisms for Resolving Air Pollution Induced Pulmonary Inflammation: Potential Differences by Asthma and Sex (RAPIDAS)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2023 - 2028Genomic Imprinting in the Development of NAFLD
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2024 - 2028The Southeastern Liver Health Cohort Study
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2023 - 2027Paternal Preconception Toxic Exposure and Autism Risk
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2025 - 2027Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health - BIRCWH
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases · 2002 - 2027Non-canonical role of Ninjurin 1 (NINJ1) in the ferroptosis of recurrent ovarian cancer
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2024 - 2026The role of ferroptosis in the metastatic ovarian cancer
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance · 2022 - 2025Population Health Research Support IDIQ Base
Clinical TrialInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2025Disabling metastasis by the targeting the ferroptosis protection mechanism of serum
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2023 - 2025Paternal Preconception Pesticide Exposure Effects on Neurodevelopmental Impairment in Their Offspring
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Autism Research Institute · 2023 - 2024Population Health Research Support - Study of Pregnancy and Neonatal Health (SPAN) Task A
Clinical TrialInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024Follow-up and Maintenance of the Newborn Epigenetics STudy (NEST) Cohort
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2018 - 2024Role of Age-Related Changes in the Tumor Microenvironment on Ovarian Cancer Progression
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2024Potential pathophysiologic mechanisms linking air pollution exposure in pregnant women to reduced birth weight
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Rochester · 2017 - 2024The Southeastern Liver Health Cohort Study
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2021 - 2023Does exposure to mitochondrial toxicants during germ cell development result in lifelong alterations in mitochondrial function mediated by epigenetic changes?
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2023Social adversities, epigenetics, and the obesity epidemic
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2017 - 2023Translational Research in Surgical Oncology
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2022Paternal Transgenerational Epigenetic Legacy from Use of Cannabis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2017 - 2022Validation and interrogation of differentially expressed and alternatively spliced genes in African American prostate cancer
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2014 - 2020Pharmacological Sciences Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020Organization and Function of Cellular Structure
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020Children Exposure to SVOC Mixtures Indoors and Associations with Obesity
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2020Epigenomics in insulin resistance associated overactive bladder
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2020Genetic and Epigenetic Markers of Progressive Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
ResearchMentor · Awarded by American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases · 2018 - 2020Epigenetics and the Development of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
ResearchMentor · Awarded by American College of Gastroenterology · 2015 - 2019Duke University Program in Environmental Health
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2013 - 2019Neurodevelopment and Improving Children's Health Following EtS Exposure (NICHES)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2019Neurodevelopment and Improving Children's Health following EtS exposure (NICHES)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2013 - 2019Triggering human anti-tumor stringent response to target recurrent ovarian cancer
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2017 - 2019Immune regulated amino acid pathways in Alzheimer's Disease
ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018Pilot Project: Effects of Cannabis on the Epigenome of Humans and Rats
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2016 - 2017Joint Environmental, Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Tyrosine Receptor Kinases and Childhood Respiratory Disease
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Southern California · 2013 - 2017Functional Genomic Screens of Tumor Recurrence in Ovarian Cancer
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2014 - 2017Cancer Biology Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 1993 - 2016Obesity and deregulation of imprinted genes in early life
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2015Epigenetic influence on the early childhood self-regulation capacities and obesity
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2014Ovarian Cancer Initiating Cells: Metabolic Characterization
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2014Gene Regulation in Recurrent Ovarian Cancers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Gynecologic Cancer Foundation · 2011 - 2014Disparities in cervical cancer precursors and deregulation of imprinted genes
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2014Nutrition, Deregulation of Imprinted Genes and Rapid Weight Gain in Early Life
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2014Characterizing Alcohol's Effects on Repair of Liver Injury
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2012Identification and Characterization of Epigenetically Labile Genes
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2010In-utero Exposure and Infant Loss of IGF2 Imprinting
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2008Imprinted PEG3 Domain at 19q13.4 and carcinogenesis
FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2001 - 2003External Relationships
- Apple Inc.
- Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society
- Society of Reproductive Investigation
- The John Templeton Foundation
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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