
A systematic approach to understand the role of gut-immune-brain axis in neurocognitive impairment among children treated for cancer, 2025-2026
Role: Multiple PI
Funding Agency: Winship Cancer Institute Invest$ Award – Team Science Grant

Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) Region 4 (PI: A. Mutic), 2019-2024, 2024-2027
Role: Co-I
Funding Agency: CDC/American Academy of Pediatrics/EPA

Investigating the Relationship between Gut Microbiome, Stunting and Neurodevelopment in Children 6-24 Months of Age in Rwanda, 2024-2026
Role: Multiple PI
Funding Agency: Emory University Global Health Institute

Advanced Research Training in Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) (ART) (PIs: J. Hamilton, D. Waldrop, C. Sterk), 2024-2027
Role: Course Faculty
Funding Agency: NIH NINR R25NR021371

Multilevel Social Determinants of Health, Tumor and Gut Microbiome, and Psychoneurological Symptom Cluster among Breast Cancer Survivors: A Case-Control Study, 2025-2026
Role: Multiple PI
Funding Agency: American Cancer Society-Winship Collaborative Grant

Testing the Feasibility of a Transportation for Cancer Care Navigation Tool (TRACT) in Patients with Solid Tumors Receiving Radiation Therapy, 2024-2025
Role: PI (NCT06541158)
Funding Agency: American Cancer Society -IRG

Virtually Delivered Home-based Exercise Intervention (RISE) on Cognitive Impairment and Gut Microbiome in Adolescent and Young Adult Brain Tumor Survivors: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, 2024-2026
Role: Multiple PI (NCT06799481)
Funding Agency: The NRG Oncology Pilot Award funded by NCI

Identifying Multi-level Social Determinants for Disparities in Survival and Patient-Reported Outcomes among National Head and Neck Cancer Trials, 2022-2024
Role: PI
Funding Agency: Oncology Nursing Society Foundation

Imaging-driven Cancer Associated Neurosciences (I-CAN): Understanding Cancer-Related Neuropsychological Impairment for Precision Oncology, 2022-2024
Role: Multiple PI
Funding Agency: Emory University Synergy Award

Gut Microbiome and Its Association with Growth Trajectories in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease, 2022-2024
Role: Multiple PI
Funding Agency: Woodruff Fund Inc. and Georgia CTSA NIH Award (UL1-TR002378)

The Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis and Chemotherapy-Associated Cognitive Impairment Among Breast Cancer Women (MAGIC-W), 2022-2024
Role: PI
Funding Agency: Winship Invest Award (P30CA138292)

NRG-CC005: Five or Ten Year Colonoscopy for 1-2 Non-Advanced Adenomatous Polyps (FORTE), 2021-2030
Role: Co-I & Chair of the Microbiome and Patient-Reported Outcomes
Funding Agency: NIH National Cancer Institute

Exploring the Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis in Psychoneurological Symptoms in Children with Solid Tumors, 2018-2024 (NCE)
Role: PI
Funding Agency: NIH National Institute of Nursing Research K99/R00 Award

Gut Microbiome, Obesity/Adiposity and Quality of Life in Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumors, 2019-2023 (NCE)
Role: PI
Funding Agency: The Woodruff Scholar Early Independence Award

Gut microbiome and gastrointestinal symptoms in children with sarcoma pre- and post-chemotherapy, 2018-2020
Role: PI
Funding Agency: The Oncology Nursing Foundation at Oncology Nursing Society

Rurality, Neighborhood Socioeconomic and Environmental Deprivation and Patient-Reported Outcomes for Men with Prostate Cancer in RTOG 0415, 2019-2021
Role: PI
Funding Agency: The NRG Oncology CCDR Pilot Program


Gut microbiome and gastrointestinal symptoms in children with sarcoma after chemotherapy: a case-control study, 2017-2019
Role: PI
Funding Agency: Southern Nursing Research Society/American Nurses Foundation