Her current NINDS-K23 award is a translational exploration of the role of Sur1 in traumatic brain injury related cerebral edema under the primary mentorship of Patrick Kochanek, Director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research. Dr. Jha is looking at genetic variation of the Sur1 gene (ABCC8), and the utility of Sur1 as a biomarker in human. She is complementing these human studies by evaluating this pathway as a molecular target in a translational mouse model of TBI with and without secondary insults.