Grants Overview

Timothy Szczykutowicz, PhD and Meghan Lubner, MD received a $571K grant for their project, “Clinical Feasibility and Evaluation of Silicon Photon Counting,” from GE Healthcare.

Anand Narayan, MD, PhD received the Komen’s Career Catalyst Research grant for his project, “Closing the Gap: Mixed Methods Approaches to Reducing Breast Cancer Disparities.” The grant provides $450K over three years.

Alejandro Roldán-Alzate, PhD received a $72,995 grant for his project, “A multi-disciplinary, non-invasive assessment of the bladder response to filling,” from the DHHS, PHS, and the NIH as well as a CAIRIBU Collaboration Award, which provides $50K over one year.

JP Yu, MD, PhD received a $180K grant for his project, “The Gut-Brain Axis in Autism Spectrum Disorder Presenting with Gut Inflammation,” from The Brain Foundation.

Pallavi Tiwari, PhD received a $171K grant for her project, “Entropy-based navigation for identifying GBM recurrence on post-treatment MRI,” from V Foundation for Cancer Research. She also received a $168K grant for her project, “RadxTools for feature quality benchmarking and assessing tumor treatment response Supplement,” from Case Western Reserve University.

Guang-Hong Chen, PhD received a four-year grant for $2,343,981 from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), and National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his project, “Next Generation Cone Beam CT with Improved Contrast Resolution and Added Spectral Imaging Functionality.”

Andrew Wentland, MD, PhD received the 2023 American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) Scholarship. This award supports early-career faculty members with a $180K grant over two years from the Roentgen Fund of the ARRS.

Jonathan Engle, PhD received a $122K grant for his project, “Generator, Chelator, and Kit Optimization (GeCKO): Bringing 44TI and 43/44gSc into Radiopharmacy Practice,” from the Department of Energy.

Ali Pirasteh, MD received the RSNA Research Scholar Grant. This award provides $199,921 over two years for the project “Development of FAPI PET as a non-invasive biomarker of Liver fibrogenesis.”