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.

Foundation of the ASNR Grants

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


2023

Nancy Pham, MD
Stanford University

Multi-technique MR Perfusion Evaluation of Nasopharyngeal Carcinomas: A Study Assessing the Concurrent Use of Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast-enhanced, Dynamic Contrast-enhanced, and Arterial Spin Labeling for Whole-tumor Characterization and Biomarker Discovery


2023

Peter Kamel, MD
University of Maryland

Cross-Modality Stroke Segmentation using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Detection of Acute Ischemic Infarcts on Non-Contrast Head CT


2022

Evan Calabrese, MD, PhD
Duke University

Prospective Evaluation of Automated Pre- and Postoperative Tumor Segmentation for Patients with Glioblastoma


2022

Henrik Ullman, MD, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis

Intraprocedural measurement of stroke reperfusion volume and outcome prediction using digital subtraction angiography


2022

Arash Nazeri, MD
Washington University, St. Louis

Towards a generalizable quantitative assessment of early postnatal white matter development using highly efficient relaxometry


2022

Emmanuel Obusez, MD
Cleveland Clinic

Ex Vivo 170 microns Ultra-High Spatial Resolution 7T MRI Characterization of Multiple Sclerosis Paramagnetic Rim Lesions with Histologic Correlation


Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders

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


2021

Ana Franceschi, MD, PhD
Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health

[18F] PI-2620 PET in Primary Progressive Aphasia


2020

Susie Y. Huang, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Exploring the relationship between tau deposition and neurovascular health in Alzheimer’s disease


2019

Ilya Nasrallah, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Evaluation of [F18]NOS as a Novel PET Radiotracer for Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease


2017

Michael Zeineh, MD, PhD
Stanford University

Amount Funded: $250,000.00

Iron-Based Neuroinflammation: A New Window to AD Pathology


2017

Cyrus Raji, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

Amount Funded: $99,460.00

Diffusion MR Imaging based Edge Density Connectome Mapping for Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease


2017

Sumit Niogi, MD, PhD
Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Amount Funded: $242,140.00

Development of a Clinically Integrated Prognostic Tool for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Deep Machine Learning Operating on a Connectome Network Diffusion Model


2017

Christopher G Filippi, MD
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

Amount Funded: $100,000.00

Development of a Novel, Quantitative MR Imaging Biomarker of Glymphatic Flow for Alzheimer’s Disease


2017

Elizabeth Davenport, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern

Amount Funded: $99,952.00

MEG Spectral Analysis as a Biomarker in Alzheimer’s Disease


2016

David J. Mikulis, MD
Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto
Bruce A. Wasserman, MD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Amount Funded: $229,650.00

Developing an imaging biomarker for Alzheimer’s dementia based on vascular dysfunction


2016

Rahul Desikan, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

Amount Funded: $230,865.00

Multi-dimensional prediction of Alzheimer’s disease risk


2016

Jeffrey R. Petrella, MD
Duke University School of Medicine

Amount Funded: $230,426.00

High-Resolution Intracortical DTI for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease


2016

Meng Law, MD, MBBS, FRACR
University of Southern California

Amount Funded: $205,945.00

Multi-Shell HARDI/FOD and Structural MRI of White and Gray Matter Connectomics with Allopregnanolone Regenerative Therapy in MCI and Alzheimers Disease


2016

Sterling C. Johnson, PhD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Amount Funded: $100,000.00

Tau, amyloid and cerebral vascular health in people at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease


Comparative Effectiveness Research Award Recipients

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”


2019

Lea Alhilali, MD
Barrow Neurological Institute

Evaluation of a Single Bolus, Multi-Echo Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Protocol in Patients with Glioblastoma


2018

Akash Kansagra, MD
Washington University School of Medicine

Amount Funded: $60,000.00

Science of Systems of Care: Simulating Care Delivery and Patient-Centered Health Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke


2017

Timothy J. Amrhein, MD
Duke University Medical Center

Comparison of Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Corticosteroid Injections with lateralized Interlaminar Epidural Corticosteroid Injections for Treatment of Cervicogenic Upper Extremity Radiculopathy


2016

Falgun Chokshi, MD, MS
Emory University School of Medicine

Diagnostic Yield & Cost of Repeat Emergency Department Head Computed Tomography for Non-Traumatic, Non-Localizing, & Non-Painful Neurologic Symptoms Using Machine Learning


2015

Kristen Yeom, MD
Stanford University- Stanford, California

Detecting Abnormalities in Patients Who Otherwise Cannot be Reliably Scanned with MRI, by Reducing the Scan Failure Rate through a Fast Motion-Corrected Brain Protocol with High Diagnostic Quality, and with Efficacy That Is Comparable to or Superior Than the Conventional MRI Protocol


2014

Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD
UW Health UW Hospital Clinics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Utility of fMRI as a Pre-surgical Planning Tool in Brain Tumor Patients


2013

No Award Given

2012

Ari M. Blitz, MD
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Comparative Effectiveness of High Resolution 3D vs. Standard 2D Protocol Pituitary MRI for Cushing’s Disease


2011

Ajay Gupta, MD
NY Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Comparison of CT Perfusion and Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Evaluation of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia Using Bayesian Analysis


David M. Yousem Research Fellow Award

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


2023

Inka Berglar, Dipl-Math
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Rajiv Gupta
Levin Michael Moser
Justin Vranic

Accuracy, Variability and Spatial Overlap of Infarct Core from Three CT Perfusion Packages vis-à-vis Diffusion Weighted Images: A Comparative Study


2023

Razia Sultana, DVM, MS, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Darren Monivann Imphean
Akshay Parchure
Bhavya Ramesh Shah

Nitrous Oxide Enhances MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Mediated Blood Brain Barrier Opening


2022

Luca Pasquini, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Longitudinal evaluation of brain plasticity in glioma: graph-theory provides biomarkers of language reorganization on post-surgical fMRI


2022

Rosalie McDonough, MD, Msc
University of Calgary

Clinical Outcome of Patients with Mild Pre-Stroke Morbidity Following Endovascular Treatment – a HERMES Substudy


Neuroradiology Research Grant in Artificial Intelligence

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


2019

Vishal Patel, MD, PhD
Keck School of Medicine of USC

Predicting Histologic and Molecular Features of Gliomas from MR Imaging using Machine Learning


Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research

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


2019

Pejman Maralani, MD, FRCPC
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Quantitative BOLD MRI to detect glioma stem cell niches in non-enhancing FLAIR hyperintense regions in patients with glioblastoma and their effect on treatment response


2018

Hediyeh Baradaran, MD
Boston University Medical Center

Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression and Subclinical Brain Ischemia, Brain Aging, and the Incidence of Dementia: Framingham Study


2018

Douglas Martin, MD
Stanford University

Noninvasive Neuromodulation in a Rat Model of Depression


2017

Jana Ivanidze, MD
New York-Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell Medical College

Radiogenomics of Blood Brain Barrier Damage in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage


2017

Gloria J. Guzmán Pérez-Carrillo, MD, MSc
University of Arizona

Diffusion Weighted Imaging for the Evaluation of Post-Treatment Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Neck: Imaging Optimization and a New Quantative and Qualitative Assessment Metric


2016

Raag Airan MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins Medical Institution

Wada 2.0: Focal Delivery of Anesthetics to the Brain via Noninvasive Focused Ultrasound


2015

Joseph Young, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital- Boston, MA

Reducing Radiation Dose, Iodine Dose, and Cost in CTA of Acute Hemorrhagic & Non-Hemorrhagic Stroke with Preserved Diagnostic Accuracy: Optimization and Assessment of Routine Dual Energy Head CT Scanning in a Level I Trauma Center


2014

Ajay Gupta, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Multi-parametric MRI Assessment of Cerebral Hemodynamics and Carotid Plaque in Asystomatic Carotid Stenosis


2013

Monica Pearl, MD, DABR
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Highly Selective MRI-Guided Targeting of Intra-arterial Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery to the Brainstem in a Rabbit Model of Mannitol-Induced Blood Brain Barrier Disruption


2012

Seena Dehkharghani, MD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Investigating the Utility of MR Thermometry and Perfusion in the Evaluation of Cerebrovascular Ischemia: Applications to the Ischemic Penumbra Model of Neurovascular Injury


2011

Michael J. Paldino, MD
Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Abnormal Structural and Functional Connectivity in Pediatric Patients with Focal Cortical Dysplasia


2010

Steven W. Hetts, MD
University of California, San Francisco, CA

Endovascular Catheter for Magnetic Navigation under MRI Guidance: Evaluation of Healing In Vivo at 1.5T


2010

Daniel Mandell, MD
University of Toronto

Evolution of Individual White Matter Lesions in Leukaoraiosis: A Serial MRI Study


2009

Greg Zaharchuk, MD, PhD
Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA

Optimizing Arterial Spin Label MRI for the Visualization of Collateral Flow in Moyamoya Disease


2008

Tammie L. S. Benzinger, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Childhood Leukodystrophy with Neuromuscular Disability: Translational Use of MRI Directional Diffusivity as a Tool for Prognosis and Response to Therapy


2008

Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Characterizing the Neural Substrates of Stroke Recovery Utilizing fMRI and Perfusion Imaging


2007

Pina C. Sanelli, MD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

Assessing the Value of CT Perfusion in Improving Clinical Outcomes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Using a Decision Analytic Model


2006

Erin Simon Schwartz, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

A Comprehensive MR Assessment of Fetal Physiologic Well-Being


2005

Donna R. Roberts, MD
University of California, San Francisco, CA

The Assessment of Image-guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as an Adjuvant to Extradural Cortical Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Facial Pain


2004

Steven G. Imbesi, MD
University of California Medical Center, San Diego, CA

Alteration of Intracranial Aneurysm Flow Dynamics: Development and Evaluation of Potential Neurointerventional Endovascular Treatment Regimens of Wide Necked Aneurysms


2003

Steven G. Imbesi, MD
University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA

Alteration of Intracranial Aneurysm Flow Dynamics: Development and Evaluation of Potential Neurointerventional Endovascular Treatment Regimens of Wide Necked Aneurysms


2002

James D. Eastwood, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

CT Perfusion Imaging in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Related Vasospasm


2001

Soonmee Cha, MD
New York University Medical Center, New York, NY

Dynamic Contrast Enhanced T2*-weighted MRI and Histopathological Assessment of Experimental Glioma


2000

Melanie B. Fukui, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Carotid Stenosis Evaluation: Cost-Effectiveness of Computed Tomographic Angiography vs. Magnetic Resonance Angiography


1999

L. Santiago Medina, MD, MPH
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

The Role and Cost-Effectiveness of Imaging in Newborns with Suspected Occult Spinal Dysraphism


Research Scientist Award Recipients

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


2018

Kevin Chen, PhD
Stanford University

A Generalizable Deep Learning Network for Imaging Neuropathology with Ultra-low-dose PET/MRI


2017

Cuihua Wang, PhD
Institute for Innovation in Imaging-Massachusetts General Hospital

Mapping the in Vivo Relationship between Neuroinflammation and Amyloid Deposition in Alzheimer’s Disease


2016

Nicolaas Puts, PhD
John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Measuring Altered Inhibition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder


2015

Jack Grinband, PhD
Columbia University- New York, NY

Detecting Non-enhancing Glioblastoma Using Resting-State fMRI


2014

Brian A. Gordon, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Investigating Tau Pathology in vivo in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease


2013

Ali Tabesh, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Diffusional Kurtosis MRI Evaluation of Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy


2012

Jeffrey I. Berman, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Diffusion MR Assessment of the Auditory Radiation in Autism


2011

Jaime F. Mata, PhD
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Non-Invasive Targeted Delivery and In-vivo Evaluation of Brain Therapy Using MR Guided Focused Ultrasound


Outstanding Contributions Award Recipients

2022

Max Wintermark, MD
MD Anderson

2021

Patricia Ellen Grant, MD
Harvard Medical School

2020

Mayank Goyal, MD, PhD, FRCPC
University of Calgary, Canada

2019

David F. Kallmes, MD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Santiago Medina sculpture


2018

Thomas A. Tomsick, MD

2017

Jeffrey G. Jarvik, MD, MPH

2016

Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD, FACR

2015

Colin P. Derdeyn, MD

2014

Charles M. Strother, MD

2013

William P. Dillon, MD

2012

Robert A. Zimmerman, MD

2011

Thomas P. Naidich, MD

2010

Victor M. Haughton, MD

2009

R. Gilberto Gonzalez, MD, PhD

2008

A. James Barkovich, MD

2007

Clifford R. Jack, MD

2006

No Award Given

2005

Dixon M. Moody, MD

2004

Robert I. Grossman, MD

Trainee Research Award Recipients

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

2017

Mairiam Aboian MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

2016

Thien Huynh, MD, MSc, FRCPC
University of Washington, Seattle

Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award Recipients

2023

Nikdokht Farid, MD
University of California, San Diego

2022

Orit A. Glenn, MD
University of California, San Francisco

2021

Lubdha Shah, MD, MS
University of Utah

2020

Tabassum A. Kennedy, MD
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

2019

Achala Vagal, MD, MS
University of Cincinnati Medical Center

2018

Tammie Benzinger, MD
Washington University School of Medicine

2017

Alyssa T. Watanabe, MD
USC School of Medicine in Manhattan, California

2016

Amy L. Kotsenas, MD
Mayo Clinic – Rochester, Minnesota

2015

Erin Simon Schwartz, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2014

Yvonne W. Lui, MD
NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York

2013

Pina C. Sanelli, MD, MPH
Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

2012

Noriko Salamon, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, CA

ASNR/RSNA Research Scholar Grant Recipients

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


2018

2020

Jamal J. Derakhshan, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine

Improved Non-contrast Brain Perfusion Imaging Using Integrated Tagging in bSSFP


2015

2017

Manu Shri Goyal, MD, MSc
Washington University School of Medicine

Integrating Brain Imaging and Metabolomics in Malnourished Children


2013

2015

Michael M. Zeineh, MD, PhD
Stanford University

Multimodal MRI to Detect Brain Injury in Athletes