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.


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

Joseph Young, MD
Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research
Grant Recipient Year: 2015
Massachusetts General Hospital- Boston, MA
Reducing Radiation Dose, Iodine Dose, and Cost in CTA of Acute Hemorrhagic & Non-Hemorrhagic Stroke with Preserved Diagnostic Accuracy: Optimization and Assessment of Routine Dual Energy Head CT Scanning in a Level I Trauma Center

Jack Grinband, PhD
Research Scientist Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2015
Columbia University- New York, NY
Detecting Non-enhancing Glioblastoma Using Resting-State fMRI


Erin Simon Schwartz, MD
Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2015
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD
Comparative Effectiveness Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2014
UW Health UW Hospital Clinics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Utility of fMRI as a Pre-surgical Planning Tool in Brain Tumor Patients

Ajay Gupta, MD
Scholar Award in Neuroradiology Research
Grant Recipient Year: 2014
Weill Cornell Medical College New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Multi-parametric MRI Assessment of Cerebral Hemodynamics and Carotid Plaque in Asystomatic Carotid Stenosis

Brian A. Gordon, PhD
Research Scientist Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2014
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Investigating Tau Pathology in vivo in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease
