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Veena Nair, PhD and Nagesh Adluru, PhD received their first R01 grant awarded as Principal Investigators from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and National Institute on Aging (NIA) for their project, “Stroke connectome MRI biomarkers for vascular contributions to cognitive impairments and dementia (VCID) risk assessment.” The team was awarded $3.5 million to be used over a 5-year …
Scott Reeder, MD, PhD and Diego Hernando, PhD recently received an R01 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their project, “Fully Automated High-Throughput Quantitative MRI of the Liver.” The team was granted nearly $1.5 million in direct costs and a total award of $2.1 million to …
The Society of Interventional Oncology Meeting kicked off in San Francisco, CA on March 24, 2022! Our Department represented UW–Madison well in presentations and abstracts. Some highlights from the event: Annika Rossebo, an undergraduate student, received high praise from faculty members who attended her presentation. Scott Mauch, MD won Best Oral Presentation on his presentation, “Hepatic …
Andrew Wentland, MD, PhD recently was inducted into the Council for Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI2), a program hosted by The Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. The CECI2 program provides an opportunity for early career investigators to meet one another and engage in workshops focused on radiology research advocacy, NIH funding, and career development. “When I learned …
The University of Wisconsin – Madison Department of Radiology is pleased to announce the Class of 2027/2028 Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology residents! Matches were announced at the Match Day 2022 ceremony, which was held virtually and in the Health Sciences Learning Center. At the event, Jason Stephenson, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology & Associate Dean for …
Newrhee Kim, MD recently accepted a position on the Board of Directors of Meriter Hospital. The Board is the governing body of the Meriter system and has ultimate responsibility for supervision of the Hospital. Duties of the Board include developing and overseeing implementation of the UnityPoint Health system strategies, regional policies, corporate mission and values, consolidated …
The relationship between the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Radiology and industry leader GE Healthcare has led to innovations in imaging across the globe. On February 17th, a team from GE Healthcare, composed of the new CEO & President of GEO Healthcare, Peter Arduini, Catherine Estrampes, Jan Makela, Jean Luc Procaccini, Jie Xue, Kevin O’Neil, Helmut …
The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research recently released their 2021 ranking of institutions, departments, and principal investigators by the funding they received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Radiology held strong this year, ranking #11 with nearly $16 million in NIH funding after ranking #10 in 2020. …
Research is one of the core initiatives of the University of Wisconsin – Madison Department of Radiology. Providing the necessary infrastructure and resources for investigators to be successful is key in supporting this initiative, and so the Department Research and Development Committee has awarded several pilot grants to projects. Take a look below at some of …
Kevin Johnson, PhD, Laura Eisenmenger, MD, Oliver Wieben, PhD, and Alejandro Roldán-Alzate PhD received an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute on Aging (NIA) for their project, Non-Invasive Imaging Markers to Elicit the Role of Vascular Involvement in Alzheimer’s Disease. They are joined by co-principal investigators Sterling Johnson, PhD and Leonardo Rivera-Rivera, PhD, both a part of …