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.
Sumit Niogi, MD, PhD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
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
Christopher G Filippi, MD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
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
Elizabeth Davenport, PhD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
University of Texas Southwestern
Amount Funded: $99,952.00. MEG Spectral Analysis as a Biomarker in Alzheimer’s Disease
Timothy J. Amrhein, MD
Comparative Effectiveness Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
Duke University Medical Center
Comparison of Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Corticosteroid Injections with lateralized Interlaminar Epidural Corticosteroid Injections for Treatment of Cervicogenic Upper Extremity Radiculopathy
Jana Ivanidze, MD
Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
New York-Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell Medical College
Radiogenomics of Blood Brain Barrier Damage in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Gloria J. Guzmán Pérez-Carrillo, MD, MSc
Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
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
Cuihua Wang, PhD
Research Scientist Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
Institute for Innovation in Imaging-Massachusetts General Hospital
Mapping the in Vivo Relationship between Neuroinflammation and Amyloid Deposition in Alzheimer’s Disease
Mairiam Aboian MD, PhD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
University of California, San Francisco
Alyssa T. Watanabe, MD
Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2017
USC School of Medicine in Manhattan, California
Bruce A. Wasserman, MD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Amount Funded: $229,650.00. Developing an imaging biomarker for Alzheimer’s dementia based on vascular dysfunction
David J. Mikulis, MD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto
Amount Funded: $229,650.00. Developing an imaging biomarker for Alzheimer’s dementia based on vascular dysfunction