Trainee Research Award Recipients
This newly created award has been established by the Foundation of the American Society of Neuroradiology to support and to foster high quality, in-depth neuroradiology research among trainees (fellows and residents matched in a neuroradiology program) who are committed to a career in neuroradiology. The goal of this award is encourage investigators in the infancy of their careers and foster the need for continued and evolving neuroradiology research; as well as to identify and develop future leaders in the sub-specialty.


Soha Mohammadi, MD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2025
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Real-World Cost and Safety Consequences of Unnecessary Thyroid FNAs Identified by ACR TI-RADS Re-Reads

Rehab Khalid, MBBS
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2025
Massachusetts General Hospital
Role of Spectral Imaging in the Diagnosis of Ménière’s Disease

Mohammad Khalafi, MD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine
Imaging CSF Dynamics to Probe Glymphatic Dysfunction in Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Justyna Ekert, MD, PhD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2025
Mayo Clinic in Florida
7T Hippocampal Subfield Imaging as a Biomarker of Seizure Lateralization and Cognitive Outcomes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Minerva Zhou, MD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2024
University of California San Francisco
Automated Volumetric Measurements for Early Identification of Fetal Hydrocephalus Requiring Intervention

Yu Sakai, MD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2024
University of Pennsylvania
Imaging biomarkers of complex aortic arch plaque in acute ischemic stroke patients using photon-counting CT

Madhavi Duvvuri, MD, MPhil
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2024
University of California San Francisco
Evaluating Cerebral Vasospasm and Ruptured Aneurysm Treatment Efficacy and Outcomes in Black, Hispanic and Female Populations

Abhi Jain, DO, DPT, MEd
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2024
University of Southern California
Radiomics Analysis of Hippocampal Subfields in Limbic Predominant Age-related TDP43 Encephalopathy (LATE)

Dhairya Lakhani, MD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
Johns Hopkins University
Novel MR fingerprinting ASL in characterization of small arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)

Maryam Vejdani Jahromi, MD, PhD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
Harvard Medical School
Machine Learning Algorithm to Detect Region of Brain Infarction based on CT Angiogram Imaging

Cynthia Greene, MD, PhD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Applying pH-sensitive amide proton transfer imaging to poststroke dementia patients in order to determine imaging biomarkers of post stroke outcomes.

Gabriel Broocks, MD
Trainee Research Award
Grant Recipient Year: 2023
University Medical Center Hamburg
A multicenter study to implement an imaging biomarker for acute stroke management: deep learning-based quantification of net water uptake in the ischemic brain