Congratulations! RSNA R&E Foundation 2021 Grant Recipients

We extend hearty congratulations to our UW Radiology recipients of the RSNA R&E Foundation 2021 Grants!

• Majid Chalian, MD – Research Scholar Grant, “Predicting Treatment Response to Neoadjuvant Radioimmunotherapy (NRIT) in High Grade Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS) with MRI-based Radiomic Signature” $150,000
  • Mentors: Matt Nyflott, Paul Kinahan, Lee Cranmer, Delphine Chen, Stephanie Schaub

• Zi Jun Wu, MD – Research Resident/Fellow Grant, “Fat Quantification with Dual-energy CT: Toward Cross-vendor and Patient Validation,” $49,953
  • Mentor: Achille Mileto
  • Study team members: Daniel Hippe, David Zamora, Kiran Bahmba

• Guilherme M. Cunha, MD – Research Resident/Fellow Grant, “Signal Intensity Trajectories for Multi-class Liver Segmentation,” $50,000
  • Scientific Advisor: Antonio Westphalen. Dr Claude Sirlin and Kathryn Fowler from UCSD and Kyle Hasenstab from SDSU are coinvestigators in this collaborative research.