Research News
April 25, 2025
Dr. Suleeporn Sujichantararat awarded UW Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to postdoctoral scholar Suleeporn “Yui” Sujichantararat, PhD, who has been accepted into UW’s eScience Institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow! The eScience Institute collaborates with students, faculty, and researchers across the UW and beyond to leverage data science tools including machine learning, data visualization and cloud computing for making sense of large, complex datasets. Data…
April 18, 2025
New custom-built water chiller installed to support radiochemistry
The UW Department of Radiology is celebrating the commissioning of a new custom-built water chiller which replaces a 20-year-old system that had failed. The massive ‘Titan’ chiller, manufactured by Advantage Engineering in Iowa, is required for operation of the cyclotron in the Radiology Radiochemistry center. The cyclotron in turn is used to produce radiopharmaceuticals used…
March 19, 2025
AI governance: Ensuring ethical and responsible AI development
By Radiology AI Pillar members doctors Daniel Vergara, Kalpana Kanal, Nathan Cross and Jonathan Medverd In Fall 2024, the Department of Radiology AI Pillar created a policy document that describes the process for managing medical imaging artificial intelligence (AI) tools, software, and algorithms applied to medical imaging in the practice of medicine across the UW…
March 12, 2025
Dr. Marissa Lawson has received the 2025 Athena Award
Congratulations to Marissa Lawson, MD, on her selection as the 2025 recipient of the Athena Endowed Award for Excellence in Breast Cancer Research! The Athena Award was established to recognize an early career researcher making the greatest contribution during the past year toward advancing research to improve the prevention, detection, diagnosis and/or treatment of breast…
February 20, 2025
UW Radiology contributes to international scientific statement on AI in cardiac imaging
UW Radiology Acting Instructor Domenico Mastrodicasa, MD, has published a scientific statement on artificial intelligence (AI) in cardiac CT and MRI in the journal Radiology. The statement is titled, “Use of AI in Cardiac CT and MRI: A Scientific Statement from the ESCR, EuSoMII, NASCI, SCCT, SCMR, SIIM, and RSNA.” In the scientific statement, Dr. Mastrodicasa and colleagues explored where AI is already…
January 23, 2025
Dr. Mona Kharaji recounts presenting on vessel wall imaging at RSNA 2024
By Mona Kharaji, MD, Neuroradiology Research Fellow Attending the RSNA 2024 Annual Meeting in Chicago was an incredible and enriching experience. Thanks to the generous support of the Gamble Cerebrovascular Research Fund and the Education Endowment Committee, I had the opportunity to present two educational exhibits focused on vessel wall imaging in stroke workup…
October 23, 2024
Dr. Habib Rahbar named Imaging Co-Chair of the ECOG-ACRIN Breast Committee
Habib Rahbar, MD, FSBI, UW Radiology professor and vice chair of clinical operations, will take on a new role as Imaging Co-Chair of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group Breast Committee. In this leadership role, Dr. Rahbar will be tasked with working with the Breast Committee Chair Angie DiMichele, who oversees the entire committee and the…
October 8, 2024
Doctors Partridge and Kazerouni receive Precision Oncology Ignition Grant
Congratulations to UW Radiology Professor Savannah Partridge, PhD, and Postdoctoral Researcher Anum Kazerouni, PhD, who were recently awarded the Precision Oncology Ignition Grant from the Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute at Fred Hutch Cancer Center! The co-PIs received the award for their proposal, “Radiomics-Based Phenotyping for treatment Optimization of HER2+ Breast Cancer.” Towards the…
August 21, 2024
Dr. Manish Dhyani awarded membership to the Council of Early Career Investigators
Congratulations to UW Radiology Assistant Professor Manish Dhyani, MD, who has been awarded membership to the Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI2), class of 2024! This membership is awarded annually by The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research (“The Academy.”) Dr. Dhyani is an assistant professor in Abdominal Imaging and is the…
June 27, 2024
UW Radiology Becomes ARCH-AI Recognized Center
The University of Washington (UW) Radiology Vice Chair of Informatics Nathan Cross, MD, MS, CIIP, was recently notified that the UW Department of Radiology was named a recognized center as part of the American College of Radiology® Recognized Center for Healthcare-AI (ARCH-AI) the first national artificial intelligence quality assurance program for radiology facilities. The program, built…