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.
Rahul Desikan, MD, PhD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
University of California, San Francisco
Amount Funded: $230,865.00. Multi-dimensional prediction of Alzheimer’s disease risk
Jeffrey R. Petrella, MD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
Duke University School of Medicine
Amount Funded: $230,426.00. High-Resolution Intracortical DTI for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
Meng Law, MD, MBBS, FRACR
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
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
Sterling C. Johnson, PhD
Boerger Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
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
Falgun Chokshi, MD, MS
Comparative Effectiveness Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
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
Raag Airan MD, PhD
Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
Johns Hopkins Medical Institution
Wada 2.0: Focal Delivery of Anesthetics to the Brain via Noninvasive Focused Ultrasound
Nicolaas Puts, PhD
Research Scientist Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Measuring Altered Inhibition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Thien Huynh, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
University of Washington, Seattle
Amy L. Kotsenas, MD
Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2016
Mayo Clinic – Rochester, Minnesota
Michael M. Zeineh, MD, PhD
ASNR/RSNA Research Scholar Grant
Stanford University
Multimodal MRI to Detect Brain Injury in Athletes
Kristen Yeom, MD
Comparative Effectiveness Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2015
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