September 12 2024
NRG Oncology NCORP solicited pilot projects earlier this year and is pleased to announce that two proposals were selected. The awards fund projects that have high potential to lead to competitive NRG NCORP concepts.
Jinbing Bai, PhD, and Maria Swartz, PhD, project is titled, Virtually Delivered Home-based Exercise Intervention on Cognitive Impairment and Gut Microbiome in Adolescent and Young Adult Brain Tumor Survivors: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Dr. Bai is an Assistant Professor at Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Since joining Emory University in 2016, his research focuses on cancer treatment-related symptoms, toxicities, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), and microbiome science. Dr.Swartz is an Assistant Professor at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics-Research. Dr. Swartz has a track record of designing and implementing digital health-based interventions to promote physical activityand weight management, optimize the adoption of wearable devices in physicalactivity interventions, increase the evidence base for the impact of physical activity on physical function outcomes, and incorporating novel methods to optimize outcomes for cancer patients and survivors.
Shria Kumar, MD MSCE , was also selected and the project is titled, Helicobacterpylori eradication for primary prevention of gastric cancer. Dr. Kumar is an Assistant Professor, Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Kumar is a physician-scientist focused on gastrointestinal (GI) cancer epidemiology and risk factor mitigation, with research focused on screening, early detection, and early endoscopic management of GI cancers, and the identification and management of risk factors for GI cancers.