Seed Grant Awardees
2024-2025
Congratulations to the ISS 2024-2025 Seed Grant Awardees, Falko Ensle, MD, Attending Radiologist at Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, with his proposed “Healthy aging” – Quantitative biomarkers for personalized prevention with whole-body composition profiling using a deep learning algorithm; and Jordan Pollock, MD, MBA, Program Director of Diagnostic Radiology at Mayo Clinic - Phoenix Arizona, with his proposed Patient-Centered Radiology Report of the Future.
 Falko Ensle, MD |  Jordan Pollock, MD |
2023-2024
Congratulations to the ISS 2023-2024 Seed Grant Awardees, Karen Cheng, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology at University of California San Diego, with her proposed Ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) – Double Echo Steady 1 State (UTE-DESS) MRI of Musculoskeletal Tissues; Alexandra Gersing, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at University Hospital of the Technical University of Munich, and her proposed Automated Detection, Classification and Diagnostic Management of Benign and Malignant Bone Lesions Using Multitask Deep Learning Models; and Vidyani Suryadevara, PhD, Radiologist at Stanford University, and her proposed Detection of Senescence by [18F]-PyGal Radiotracer in Talus from Osteoarthritic Ankles.
 Karen Cheng, MD |  Alexandra Gersing, MD |
 Vidyani Suryadevara, PhD |
2022-2023
Congratulations to the ISS 2022-2023 Seed Grant Awardees, Mohamed Jarraya, MD, Radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital with his proposed Using Pain Phenotyping for Better Correlation Between Structural Findings and Functional Outcomes of Knee Osteoarthritis and Kim Tsoi, MD, PhD, Orthopedic Surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital and her proposed Use of DNA Methylation to Differentiate Reactive from Malignant Peritumoral Edema in Infiltrative Soft Tissue Sarcomas.
 Mohamed Jarraya, MD |  Kim Tsoi, MD, PhD |
2021-2022
Congratulations to the ISS 2020-2021 Seed Grant Awardees, Monique Reijnierse, MD PhD, Radiologist at Leiden University Medical Center with her proposed Optimizing Imaging for Very Early Detection of Arthritis – Studying the Accuracy, Patient Friendliness, and Cost-effectiveness of a Short Dixon-MRI Protocol and Rene Balza, MD, Radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and his proposed Development of Guidance Tools That Analyze Patient-Reported Lumbar Spine Symptoms and Predict Locations of Pain Generators to Assist Radiologists in Symptom-MRI Correlation and More Consistent, Higher-Value MRI Reporting.
 Monique Reijnierse, MD, PhD |  Rene Balza, MD |
2019-2020
Congratulations to the ISS 2019-2020 Seed Grant Awardees, Arjen Cleven, MD, PhD, Pathologist at Leiden University Medical Center with his proposed Improving Diagnostic Accuracy for Maxillofacial Bone Tumors and Iman Khodarahmi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at New York University School of Medicine and his proposed Optimization of the Radiofrequency Pulse Polarization for Reduction of Metal Related Artifacts in 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Hip Arthroplasty Implants.
 Arjen Cleven, MD, PhD |  Iman Khodarahmi, MD, PhD |
2017-2018
Congratulations to the ISS 2017-2018 Seed Grant Awardees, Shivani Ahlawat, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Johns Hopkins Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences with his proposed Quantitative Functional and Metabolic Whole-Body Imaging in Patients with Neurofibromatosis type 1 and Darryl Sneag, MD, Assistant Professor, Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Medical College Cornell and his proposed Novel Contrast Enhanced Vascular Suppression Techniques in MR Neurography.
There was a great deal of competition as dozens of top quality proposals were submitted.