Grant Recipients

Since its inception in 1995, The Foundation of the American Society of Neuroradiology has awarded nearly $6 Million dollars to fund 100 young investigators enabling them to pursue their interests and establish themselves in the field of neuroradiology. Over $340,000 in grants is awarded annually. Your support is paramount to the Foundation’s ability to continue funding opportunities for promising young investigators. Philanthropic investment of major donors who understand the importance of research in neuroradiology will yield more expert diagnoses, leading to targeted care for patients and more sophisticated approaches to sensitive, complex, and devastating diseases.

  • 2023

    Licia Luna, MD, PhD

    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

    Investigating the Resting State Functional Connectivity and Molecular Underpinnings of the Association between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Dementia

  • 2023

    Virginia Hill, MD

    Northwestern University

    Augmented Intelligence Analysis of Meningioma MRIs According to DNA Methylation Subgroups, Molecular Markers, and Copy Number Variants

Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders

The American Society of Neuroradiology funds imaging-based research that advance our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, help identify new treatment strategies, provide information to improve care for people with dementia, and further our knowledge of brain health and disease prevention. Our awards support investigators at every professional stage and always include categories specifically designed to help talented young scientists establish careers in Alzheimer’s imaging research.

  • 2023

    Priya Rajagopalan, MBBS, MPH

    University of Southern California

    Assessing Brain volumes and White matter Microstructure in Alzheimer’s Disease in relation to Astrocyte and Oligodendrocyte based genetic subtypes

  • 2022

    Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Use of AI for intermodality conversion of brain MR to PET for diagnosis of AD, MCI, and aging normals

Imaging Research in Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases Grant

The Alzheimer’s Association and the Foundation of the ASNR are partnering to offer this unique funding program: Imaging Research in Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases. The goal of this program is to support the development of imaging tools, to advance imaging-based research and to provide funding for novel and innovative imaging data analysis as relates to Alzheimer’s and related dementia.

  • 2024

    Phillip Zhe Sun, PhD

    Emory University

    Development of CEST MRI for Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Comparative Effectiveness Research Award Recipients

This award was created to support investigators in the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of diagnostic imaging methods or interventions to prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor a clinical condition or to improve the delivery of care. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is valuable to clinicians, patients, purchasers, and policy makers in making informed decisions that will improve health care at both the individual and population levels. CER includes the direct comparison of diagnostic imaging modalities or interventions for a specific disease in a study population. Neuroradiologists have an important role in the development of new imaging technologies and image-guided procedures, as well as in the assessment of these techniques in the clinical care of patients.

  • 2021

    Sam Payabvash, MD

    Yale School of Medicine

    Cost-Effectiveness of Perfusion Imaging in Thrombectomy Treatment Triage of Stroke Patients in Extended Time Window

  • 2020

    Nadja Kadom, MD

    Emory University School of Medicine

    Comparative Effectiveness of Imaging Techniques for Children with Headaches: Fast Brain MRI, Conventional Brain MRI, Head CT and “No Imaging”

David M. Yousem Research Fellow Award

The David M. Yousem Research Fellow Award creates opportunities to increase the number of Research Fellows that can attend the ASNR Annual Meeting and present their research. This Award offsets travel expenses to the ASNR Annual Meeting (up to $2,000) for eligible Research Fellows who are engaged in research efforts more than 75 percent of their time.

  • 2024

    Hye Hyeon Moon, MD, PhD

    Asan Medical Center

    Prospective Longitudinal Analysis of Imaging-based Spatiotemporal Tumor Habitats in Glioblastoma, IDH-wild type: Implication in Patient Outcome using Multiparametric Physiologic MRI

  • 2024

    Yongkai Liu, PhD

    Stanford University

    Predicting Functional Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke from Non-Contrast CT and Clinical Information

  • 2021

    Joseph Stember, MD, PhD

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Deep reinforcement learning to detect brain metastases with small training sets and overcome the image noise problem in clinical deployment

  • 2020

    Jeffrey David Rudie, MD PhD

    University of California, San Francisco

    Customized 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Augmenting the Longitudinal Assessment of Glioblastoma

Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research

This award was created for investigators in the early phase of their careers (including junior faculty) to enhance competency in areas important to the future of Neuroradiology, including health services research, physiological imaging and interventional Neuroradiology. These projects allow a young investigator to develop a research project in a well-focused area of Neuroradiology that will ultimately enhance patient care. In the recent past, successful applications have focused on such topics as: (1) flow dynamics in aneurysms, (2) exploration of the use of diffusion tensor imaging in premature newborns, and (3) validation of CT perfusion algorithms in animal models.

  • 2021

    Ian Mark, MD

    University of California, San Francisco

    Assessing the microstructure and connectivity of Sensory Processing Disorder with and without ADHD using Edge Density Imaging and Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging

  • 2020

    Elizabeth George, MD

    University of California, San Francisco

    Advanced Fetal Imaging, Genomics, and Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Dysgenesis of Corpus Callosum

  • 2020

    Sohae Chung, PhD

    New York University School of Medicine

    MRI-Guided Personalized Targeting of the Ventral Intermediate Nucleus (VIM)/Dentato-Rubro-Thalamic Tract (DRT) for the MRgFUS Tremor Treatment

  • 2019

    Shruti Agarwal, PhD

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Application of Artificial Intelligence for Presurgical Mapping of Motor Network in Dynamic Resting state MR Imaging of Patients with Focal Brain Lesions

Outstanding Contributions Award Recipients

This award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated consistent excellence and lifelong accomplishment in basic or clinical neuroradiological and neuroscience research, particularly funded research from the NIH, NSF, March of Dimes, etc.

  • 2022

    Max Wintermark, MD

    MD Anderson

  • 2021

    Patricia Ellen Grant, MD

    Harvard Medical School

Trainee Research Award Recipients

This newly created award has been established by the Foundation of the American Society of Neuroradiology to support and to foster high quality, in-depth neuroradiology research among trainees (fellows and residents matched in a neuroradiology program) who are committed to a career in neuroradiology. The goal of this award is encourage investigators in the infancy of their careers and foster the need for continued and evolving neuroradiology research; as well as to identify and develop future leaders in the sub-specialty.

  • 2019

    Andreas Rauschecker, MD, PhD

    University of California, San Francisco

    Human-Interpretable AI-Based Quantitative Metrics for X-Linked ALD

  • 2018

    Mikell Yuhasz, MD

    New York University Langone Medical Center

Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award Recipients

In 2012, the Foundation of the American Society of Neuroradiology (Foundation), American College of Radiology (ACR), and American Association for Women Radiologists (AAWR) established an award to provide leadership opportunities for women in neuroradiology and/or radiology overall. Since neuroradiologists must be leaders in the field, this award is for mid-career women with demonstrated experience and promise for leadership in neuroradiology and/or radiology overall. The objectives are to provide the award recipient with additional skills and insights to enhance opportunities for advancement.

  • 2023

    Nikdokht Farid, MD

    University of California, San Diego

  • 2022

    Orit A. Glenn, MD

    University of California, San Francisco

ASNR/RSNA Research Scholar Grant Recipients

This award is the result of a collaborative effort between the Foundations of the American Society of Neuroradiology and the Radiological Society of North America. The goal of this $150,000, two-year award is to fund additional research in neuroradiology and to help prepare the next generation of neuroradiology researchers to become fully funded physician-scientists with their own research programs.

  • 2020

    Benjamin H. Kann, MD

    Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

    An Imaging-based, Artificial Intelligence-driven Platform for Pretreatment Identification of Extranodal Extension in Head and Neck Cancer

  • Michael M. Zeineh, MD, PhD

    Stanford University

    Multimodal MRI to Detect Brain Injury in Athletes