Siemens, RSNA issue 2010 rad research grant winners
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research and Education Foundation and Siemens Healthcare have announced the two winners of the 2010 Siemens Healthcare/RSNA radiology research grants.
According to the Malvern, Pa.-based Siemens, the winners are:
According to the Malvern, Pa.-based Siemens, the winners are:
- Hersh Chandarana, MD, of the New York University School of Medicine in New York City, who has been awarded the $75,000 per year Siemens Healthcare/RSNA Research Scholar Grant for a two-year study. Chandarana’s research will use contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT to assess and predict response for patients undergoing chemotherapy for liver metastases.
- James Costello, MD, PhD, of Emory University in Atlanta, is the recipient of the $50,000 Siemens Healthcare/RSNA Research Fellow Grant. Costello will focus on the increased demand for lung transplant due to chronic lung disease and how to reduce the need for multiple expensive, time-consuming and invasive tests that require hospital admission by working on the development of an outpatient MRI exam for pre- and post-lung transplant patients.