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.


Susie Y. Huang, MD, PhD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2020
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Exploring the relationship between tau deposition and neurovascular health in Alzheimer’s disease

Nadja Kadom, MD
Comparative Effectiveness Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2020
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”

Jeffrey David Rudie, MD PhD
Neuroradiology Research Grant in Artificial Intelligence
Grant Recipient Year: 2020
University of California, San Francisco
Customized 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Augmenting the Longitudinal Assessment of Glioblastoma

Elizabeth George, MD
Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research
Grant Recipient Year: 2020
University of California, San Francisco
Advanced Fetal Imaging, Genomics, and Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Dysgenesis of Corpus Callosum

Sohae Chung, PhD
Research Scientist Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2020
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

Mayank Goyal, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Outstanding Contributions Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2020
University of Calgary, Canada

Benjamin H. Kann, MD
ASNR/RSNA Research Scholar Grant
Grant Recipient Year: 2020
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

Ilya Nasrallah, MD, PhD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2019
University of Pennsylvania
Evaluation of [F18]NOS as a Novel PET Radiotracer for Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease

Lea Alhilali, MD
Comparative Effectiveness Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2019
Barrow Neurological Institute
Evaluation of a Single Bolus, Multi-Echo Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Protocol in Patients with Glioblastoma

Vishal Patel, MD, PhD
Neuroradiology Research Grant in Artificial Intelligence
Grant Recipient Year: 2019
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Predicting Histologic and Molecular Features of Gliomas from MR Imaging using Machine Learning

Pejman Maralani, MD, FRCPC
Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research
Grant Recipient Year: 2019
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

Shruti Agarwal, PhD
Research Scientist Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2019
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