IMPACT Consortium Immune & Microbiota Monitoring Partnership for Cellular Therapy in Children

Research Projects

Scientific Focus Areas

Cellular Therapies

Consortium-wide focus on allogeneic HCT, autologous HCT, CAR-T therapy, and BMT across indications.

Immune Monitoring

Standardized multi-parametric spectral flow, harmonized gating templates, and high-dimensional subset profiling.

Microbiota

Harmonized collection, sequencing, and integrated analysis with clinical metadata.

Clinical Outcomes

Deep phenotyping of GVHD, immune reconstitution, infection risk, relapse, and survival outcomes.

Multi-omics Integration

Machine-learning prediction models and integrated biomarkers from immune, microbiome, and clinical data.



Ongoing Research Projects

Predicting GVHD using immune signatures

Consortium effort to integrate DC subsets, Tregs, and cytokine profiles for early prediction of GVHD risk.

RTE recovery & thymic function after HCT

Studying patterns of naïve T cell recovery and thymic output across pediatric transplant recipients.

Microbiota-driven modulation of immune reconstitution

Linking gut microbiome dynamics with immune recovery and clinical outcomes.

Relapse risk signatures from integrated datasets

Identifying combined immune + microbiome signatures that correlate with relapse risk.