She is a full member of the Translational Cancer Biology and Signaling research program at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research program examines several novel inflammatory pathways in gastrointestinal cancers that link inflammation and tumor development and progression. She studies the interplay between the gastrointestinal tumor microenvironment and immune cells, which leads to tumor growth. The long term goal of this work is to develop new therapeutics to target these diseases.