Research Projects & Grants

Federal

• Pediatric TBI and DAI: Normal appearing brain is not normal, Role: Investigator, National Institutes of Health/DHHS, (06/2024 - 06/2025) Status: Approved
• Children's Oncology Group (COG) - ACNS0831: Phase III randomized trial of post-radiation chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed ependymoma ages 1 to 21 years, Role: Investigator, Children Oncology Group, (01/2025 - 01/2026) Status: Approved
• Iron Metabolism alterations in Alzheimer's disease, Role: Neuropathologist, National Institutes of Health/DHHS, (07/2005 - 06/2006) Status: Closed

Internal

• Update on management of atypical and anaplastic meningioma, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Neurosurgery, (02/2020 - 06/2023) Status: Completed
• Malignant glioneural tumor: clinical, radiologic, and immunophenotypic characterization of an emerging neoplasm in the central nervous system, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Neurosurgery, (04/2008 - 04/2009) Status: Completed
• Establishing Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy as A Reliable Specimen for Diagnosing, Characterizing and Following Up on Central Nervous System Tumors Using Cell-free DNA sequencing, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pathology & Human Anatomy, (11/2024) Status: Approved
• Brain and spine tumors in pediatric and adult patients and their survival outcomes, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (11/2024) Status: Approved
• Evaluating DNA recovered from the fluids collected during a routine Papanicolaou (Pap) test to detect ovarian and endometrial cancer using genetic analysis, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pathology & Human Anatomy, (12/2024 - 12/2025) Status: Approved

Non-Profit Organization

• Effect of gleevec on glioblastoma, Role: Investigator, Gould (Florence J.) Foundation, (03/2007) Status: Completed