Judith E Carroll

Judith E Carroll, PhD, is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA's School of Medicine, where she holds the George F. Solomon Professorship of Psychobiology. She directs the Aging Biology & Behavior Lab and co-leads the Infrastructure for Research in Equity, Aging, Cancer and Health initiative. Her research bridges psychoneuroimmunology, geroscience, and oncology, with continuous NIH funding since 2013.

Education:

• PhD in Biological & Health Psychology, University of Pittsburgh (2010)
• MA in Biopsychology & Aging, Sonoma State University (2003)
• BA in Psychology, Sonoma State University (2002)

Her research examines biological mechanisms linking stress, sleep, and aging in cancer populations. Primary interests include:

• Accelerated aging biomarkers in breast cancer survivors
• Sleep health interventions to reverse cellular aging
• Impact of early-life adversity on lifelong health trajectories
• Social determinants of cognitive decline in oncology

Recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate:

• Dominant focus on epigenetic aging and inflammation in oncology
• Longitudinal studies of cancer-related cognitive decline
• Methodological innovation in transcriptomic biomarker discovery
• Health disparities framework across 80% of publications

Awards:

• American Psychosomatic Society Young Scholar Award (2012)
• American Sleep Medicine Foundation Bridge to K Award (2013)
• American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award (2015)
• STOP CANCER Career Development Award (2016)
• PNIRS Robert Ader New Investigator Award (2019)

Active Grants (NIH):

• R01AG082348: Patterns of Biological Aging in Cancer Survivors (MPI, 2023-2028)
• R56AG068086: Heterogeneity in Aging Among Breast Cancer Survivors (PI, 2021-2022)
• R01CA237535: Accelerated Aging in Breast Cancer (PI, 2020-2023)

She mentors through the TLC (Thinking and Living with Cancer) Study consortium involving 15+ institutions.

Leads the Aging Biology & Behavior Lab researching stress-sleep-aging mechanisms and co-directs the Infrastructure for Research in Equity, Aging, Cancer and Health (REACH) initiative, fostering multi-institutional collaborations on health disparities.