Grant Recipients
Since its inception in 1995, The Foundation of the American Society of Neuroradiology has awarded nearly $9.5 million to fund 130 investigators enabling them to pursue their interests and establish themselves in the field of neuroradiology. Over $920,000 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.


Licia Luna, MD, PhD
Foundation of the ASNR Grants
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
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

Virginia Hill, MD
Foundation of the ASNR Grants
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
Northwestern University
Augmented Intelligence Analysis of Meningioma MRIs According to DNA Methylation Subgroups, Molecular Markers, and Copy Number Variants

Nancy Pham, MD
Foundation of the ASNR Grants
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
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

Peter Kamel, MD
Foundation of the ASNR Grants
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
University of Maryland
Cross-Modality Stroke Segmentation using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Detection of Acute Ischemic Infarcts on Non-Contrast Head CT

Priya Rajagopalan, MBBS, MPH
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
University of Southern California
Assessing Brain volumes and White matter Microstructure in Alzheimer’s Disease in relation to Astrocyte and Oligodendrocyte based genetic subtypes

Inka Berglar, Dipl-Math
David M. Yousem Research Fellow Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Accuracy, Variability and Spatial Overlap of Infarct Core from Three CT Perfusion Packages vis-à-vis Diffusion Weighted Images: A Comparative Study. Rajiv Gupta, Levin Michael Moser, Justin Vranic

Razia Sultana, DVM, MS, PhD
David M. Yousem Research Fellow Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Nitrous Oxide Enhances MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Mediated Blood Brain Barrier Opening. Darren Monivann Imphean, Akshay Parchure, Bhavya Ramesh Shah

Nikdokht Farid, MD
Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
University of California, San Diego

Alexandre Boutet, MD, MSc, PhD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
University of Toronto
Machine learning-driven individualised MR-guided Focused Ultrasound thalamotomies

Evan Calabrese, MD, PhD
Foundation of the ASNR Grants
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
Duke University
Prospective Evaluation of Automated Pre- and Postoperative Tumor Segmentation for Patients with Glioblastoma

Henrik Ullman, MD, PhD
Foundation of the ASNR Grants
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
Washington University, St. Louis
Intraprocedural measurement of stroke reperfusion volume and outcome prediction using digital subtraction angiography

Arash Nazeri, MD
Foundation of the ASNR Grants
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
Washington University, St. Louis
Towards a generalizable quantitative assessment of early postnatal white matter development using highly efficient relaxometry