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.


Emmanuel Obusez, MD
Foundation of the ASNR Grants
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
Cleveland Clinic
Ex Vivo 170 microns Ultra-High Spatial Resolution 7T MRI Characterization of Multiple Sclerosis Paramagnetic Rim Lesions with Histologic Correlation

Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Use of AI for intermodality conversion of brain MR to PET for diagnosis of AD, MCI, and aging normals

Luca Pasquini, MD
David M. Yousem Research Fellow Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Longitudinal evaluation of brain plasticity in glioma: graph-theory provides biomarkers of language reorganization on post-surgical fMRI

Rosalie McDonough, MD, Msc
David M. Yousem Research Fellow Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
University of Calgary
Clinical Outcome of Patients with Mild Pre-Stroke Morbidity Following Endovascular Treatment – a HERMES Substudy


Orit A. Glenn, MD
Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2022
University of California, San Francisco

Ana Franceschi, MD, PhD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2021
Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health
[18F] PI-2620 PET in Primary Progressive Aphasia

Sam Payabvash, MD
Comparative Effectiveness Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2021
Yale School of Medicine
Cost-Effectiveness of Perfusion Imaging in Thrombectomy Treatment Triage of Stroke Patients in Extended Time Window

Joseph Stember, MD, PhD
Neuroradiology Research Grant in Artificial Intelligence
Grant Recipient Year: 2021
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

Ian Mark, MD
Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research
Grant Recipient Year: 2021
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

Patricia Ellen Grant, MD
Outstanding Contributions Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2021
Harvard Medical School

Tabassum A. Kennedy, MD
Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2021
University of Utah