2025 ALZ-ASNR Imaging Research Grant Recipients Announcement

The Alzheimer’s Association and The Foundation of the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) have announced the recipients of their joint funding program for imaging-related research. The goal of The Alzheimer’s Association & The Foundation of the American Society of Neuroradiology Funding Opportunity: Imaging research in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases is to support the development of new novel imaging tools, advance imaging-based research, and provide funding for novel and innovative imaging data analysis pertaining to Alzheimer’s and related dementia.

Awardees, who each receive up to $200,000 for the one-year period of funding are:

Tammie Benzinger, MD, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
Ultra low field MRI for point of care monitoring for ARIA-E
ASNR member (pictured right)

Liang Gao, PhD
The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
Label-free hyperspectral imaging of Alzheimer’s disease retinal biomarkers

Swati Levendovszky, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc.
Assessing cerebrovascular disease in African Americans using advanced MRI

Maria CG Otaduy, PhD
Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Locus coeruleus: a possible imaging biomarker for neurodegenerative disease