SIR Foundation Grant Recipients
2010 Grant Recipients
Funding Source Development
Jim Duncan, MD, PhD
Washington University
Optimizing Radiation Use During Fluoroscopic Procedures
Gary Siskin, MD
Albany Medical College
The Effectiveness of Endovascular Treatment of CCSVI in Patients
with MS
Pilot Research Grant
Lihui Weng, PhD
University of Minnesota
Bioresorbable Hydrogel Microspheres for Temporary Transarterial
Embolization
Rahul Patel, MD
University of Maryland
Radiographic and Pathophysiologic Changes Secondary to
Percutaneous Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) of Rabbit Spinal Cord
Allied Scientist Training Grant
Scott Thompson
Mayo Clinic
Molecular Mechanisms of the Cellular Heat Shock (Stress) Response,
Cellular Death and Malignant Progression in Thermal Ablative Techniques
for Liver Cancer
Yue Zhang
Northwestern University
MRI for Intra-Procedural Monitoring During lrreversible
Electroporation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Michael Cochran
Drexel University
Targeted Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with a Drug Loaded
Ultrasound Contrast Agent
JingYing Lin
University of Minnesota
A Hemodynamic Simulation Model Assisting Liver Embolotherapy Based
on Anatomical Reconstruction of Hepatic Microvasculature
Radiology Resident Research Grant
Thomas Le, MD, MS
University of Washington
Radiofrequency ablation enhanced chemotherapy delivery to
cholangiocarcinoma
Student Research Grant
Aaron Eifler
Northwestern University
Prediction of Therapeutic Nanoparticle Biodistribution Based on
Tumor-Specific Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Variables.
Andrew Lee
University of California San Francisco
Management of Biliary-Enteric Anastomotic Strictures after Surgical
Repair of Iatrogenic Bile-duct Injuries: Is Percutaneous Transhepatic
Balloon Dilation Effective?
Caleb Leake
Mayo Clinic
Inpatient Inferior Vena Cava Filter Utilization, Costs, and
Outcomes: A Study of the National Inpatient Sample 2001-2008
Patrick Tyler
Northwestern University
MRI-Guided Nanoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Megan Wood
University of Minnesota
Dynamic Dual Mode Ultrasound Arrays for High Intensity Focused
Ultrasound Therapy in an ex vivo Model
Ankaj Khosla
Mayo Clinic
Factors Determining Outcomes of Renal Artery Stenting
2009 SIR Foundation Grant Recipients
Academic Transition Grant
Joseph Steele
(University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
Interventional Radiology Patient Radiation Dose Passport
2010 Grant Recipients
Funding Source Development Grant
Avery Evans
(University of Virginia)
Vertebral Augmentation versus Local Anesthesia Injection Trial (VALAIT)
Pilot Research Grant
Rajiv Janardhanan
(Mayo Clinic School of Medicine)
Assessing the Roles of ADAMTS-1 in VNH Formation on a Spatial
and Temporal Scale
Ron Gaba
(University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center)
Confirmation of Drug Delivery after Chemoembolization: Direct
Tissue
Doxorubicin Measurement and Correlation with CT Calculated
Ethiodol Concentration
Rony Avritscher
(University of Texas M.D Anderson Cancer Center)
Portal Vein Application of Mesenchymal stem cells in a large
animal model of hepatic cirrhosis: Analysis of distribution,
differentiation, and effect on liver function
Tim Darsaut
(Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal)
Aneurysm treatment with flow diversion: Fundamental in vivo
experiments to guide clinical applications
Yang Guo
(Northwestern University)
MRI-Guided Elelctroportion-Mediated Transarterial
Chemoembolization (E-TACE) in a Rodent Model of Hepatocellular
Carcinoma
Radiology Resident Research Grant
Ben Paxton
(Duke University Medical Center)
Catheter-directed Gastric Artery Embolization for Long Term
Modulation of Systemic Ghrelin Levels in a Porcine Model
Daniel Ginat
(University of Rochester)
The use of Advanced MRI for Evaluating the Role of
Preoperative Meningioma Embolization with Pathologic Correlation
Luke Wilkins
(University Hospitals Case Medical Center)
Evaluation of Pharmacologic Agents Modulating Tumor Blood
Flow: Effect on Thermal Ablation Size
Student Research Grant
Ali Pirasteh
(Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine)
Temporal Assessment of Splenic Function in Patients Who Have
Undergone Percutaneous Image Guided Splenic Artery Embolization
in the Setting of Trauma
Andrew Gordon
(Northwestern University)
Transcatheter Hepatic Arterial Delivery of Magnetic Yttrium
Microspheres for Electromagnetic Hyperthermia of Targeted Tumors
Matthew Starr
(Washington University)
Dynamic Modeling of Catheter-Associated Bloodstream
Infections.
Yuewei Wu
(Washington University)
Optimizing Radiation Use During Fluoroscopic Procedures
2008 SIR Foundation Grant Recipients
Dr. Ernest J. Ring Academic Development Grant Program
Clifford Weiss (John Hopkins University)
"MR Guided Transplantation of Magnetoencapsulated Human Pancreatic Islet Cells in a Diabetic Swine Model"
Pilot Research Grant Program
Rajoo Dhangana (Rhode Island Hospital)
"The LEAD Interventions Study (Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease Interventions: Percutaneous-first approach vs. Surgical-first approach and their impact on Amputation Volumes among Medicare Beneficiaries"
Joseph Erinjeri (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
"Mediators Underlying Local Inflammation and Treatment Response Following Thermal Ablation Tumors"
Weibin Shi (University of Virginia)
"Identification of Yin Yang-1 as a Major Gene Contributing to Neointimal Formation"
Medical Student Research Grant Program
Brad Barnett (John Hopkins University)
"Evaluation of MR-Visible ThermaSphere Microspheres For Simultaneous Chemoembolization and Thermal Therapy for Liver Cancer"
Waleed Brinjikji (Mayo Clinic)
"Analysis of Crossover and Blinding in the Investigational Vertebroplasty Efficacy and Safety Trial (INVEST)"
Eugene Duke (Northwestern University)
"Correlation of Quantitative MR Perfusion Parameters with Pathology Following Chemoembolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)"
Shantanu Gaur (Harvard Medical School)
"Hepatic Arterial Chemoembolization (HACE), Yttrium-90 Radioembolization, and Drug-eluting Bead-HACE in Carcinoid Metastases to the Liver"
Brian Jin (Northwestern University)
"The correlation of angiographic endpoints with perfusion and clinical outcomes during chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinoma"
Natanel Jourabchi (UCLA Medical Center)
"Microarray Analysis of Outcome of RFA and TACE in HCC Patients"
Lydia Kuo (Georgetown University)
"Biochemical markers of recurrence of fibroids"
Valentin Lance (UCLA Medical Center)
"Radiologic and Microarray (Radiogenomic) Analysis of Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A Novel Classification of Tumor Subtypes and Prognosis"
Christina Ma (UCLA Medical Center)
"Evaluation of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Monitoring Tumor Ablation Efficacy of Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) on Rabbit VX2 Liver Tumor"
2007 SIR Foundation Grant Recipients
Dr. Ernest J. Ring Academic Development Grant Program
Karun Sharma (Georgetown University Hospital)
"Spatiotemporal Distribution and Local Tissue
Pharmacokinetics Following Transcatheter Embolization with Drug
Eluting Beads"
Pilot Research Grant Program
James Stone (University of Virginia)
"Preclinical evaluation of systemic Sorafenib (Nexavar)
administration following trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE)
in a rodent model of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)"
Robert Lewandowski (Northwestern University)
"MRI-Guided Transcatheter Delivery of Targeted
Nanocomposites in a Rabbit Model of Pancreatic Cancer"
Robert Short (University of Virginia)
"Define and characterize development of lymphatic
malformations lymphangiogenesis using multi-modality molecular
imaging platforms"
Edward Lee (UCLA Medical Center)
"A new Image Guided Tumor Ablation: Percutaneous
Irreversible Electroporation (PIE) on Head and Neck Squamous Cell
Carcinoma Rabbit VX2 Neck Tumor"
Academic Transition Grant
Paul Shyn (Harvard Medical School)
"Respiratory Misregistration and Motion Artifacts During
PET/CT-guided Percutaneous Interventional Radiology Procedures:
Quantification of Error and a Proposed Solution"
Student Research Grant
Janakam Satkunasingham (Hospital For Sick Children)
"Evaluation of Long Term Safety and Efficacy of Image Guided
Cecostomy Tube"
Michelle Shorten (Indiana University)
"In Vivo Apoptosis from Intra-Arterial Administration of
Benzamide Riboside to Nl-Sl Liver Cancers in Rats"
David Jahangir (Unniversity of Minnesota)
"An Exothermic Electrophile for Thermochemical Ablation
Assessed in ex vivo Liver Tissue"
Brian Caldwell (University of Arkansas)
"Evaluation of Inter-population Variations in the circle of
Willis in the New Zealand White Rabbit: A Study using Digital
Subtraction Angiography"
Lee Coryell (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania)
"Labor and Resource Utilization in Maintaining Native AV
fistulas vs Artificial AV Grafts"
Radiology Resident Research Grant
Seth Klein (Stony Brook University Medical Center)
"Natural History of Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis in
Patients undergoing Catheter Directed Pharmocomechanical
Thrombolysis"
Alexander Morgan (University of Cincinnati)
"Safety of Iodinated Contrast in a Middle Cerebral Artery
Occlusion/Reperfusion Model."
2006 SIR Foundation Research Grant Recipients
Dr. Ernest J. Ring Academic Development Grant Program
Erik Cressman, MD (University of Minnesota)
"Thermochemical Ablation: A New Frontier in Interventional
Oncology"
Robert Liddell, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
"Magnetoencapuslated Hepatocytes for MR Guided Delivery and
Tracking"
Pilot Research Grant Program
Hyun Kim, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
"MR Guided Cryoablation of Uterine Leiomyoma: A Clinical
Trial with Histopathological Correlation"
Kent Sato, MD (Northwestern University)
"TRIP-MRI Monitoring of Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver
Tumors in Rabbits"
Clinical Fellowship Research Training Program Grant
Timothy Murphy, MD (Brown University)
M. David Agarwal, MD (Indiana University)
Medical Student Research Grant
Bradley Barnett (Johns Hopkins University)
"Endovascular Treatment of Aneurysms with EmboGel in
conjuntion with AlgiNet"
Luke Higgins (Stanford University)
"Analysis of Gene Expression and Differentiation in
MR-Labeled Adipose-derived Stromal Cells"
Kumapley Lartevi (Medical College of Virginia/Virginia
Commonwealth University)
"Splenic Artery Embolization in the Blunt Trauma Patient:
Splenic Salvage Rate and Radiation Dose of Proximal Embolization
when compared to Distal Embolization"
2005 SIR Foundation Research Grant Recipients
Dr. Ernest J. Ring Academic Development Grant Program
Filip Banovac, MD (Georgetown University)
"Radiofrequency Ablation of Lung Tumors in Swine
Assisted by a Navigation Device with Pre-procedural
Volumetric Planning"
Pilot Research Grant Program
Craig Glaiberman, MD (Washington University)
"Assessing Proficiency During Simulated Renal Artery
Stent Placement"
Academic Transition Award
Robert Ryu, MD (Northwestern University)
"Feasibility of MRI Assessment of Uterine Fibroid
Perfusion after UFE in an Animal Model"
Clinical Fellowship Research Training Program Grant
Jennifer Gould, MD (Washington University)
Reed Omary, MD (Northwestern University)
Radiology Resident Research Grant
Suvranu Ganguli, MD (Harvard University)
"Radiofrequency Ablation Combined with Transcatheter
Arterial Chemoembolization: Efficacy in an in vivo
Porcine Model"
Andrew Long, MD (Cornell University)
"In Vitro Evaluation of a Venous Valve Prosthesis"
Medical Student Research Grant
Briana Beauchene (Midwestern University)
"The Value of Positron Emission Tomography in Biopsy
Site Selection"
Ben Jacobs (Washington University)
"Measuring Efficiency During Simulated Renal Stent
Placement"
Robert Jajko (University of Illinois)
"Impact of Catheter Characteristics on Pancreatic
Islet Cell Graft Integrity"
Betty Tuong (University of Toronto)
"The Experience of Conducting Mortality and Morbidity
Reviews in a Pediatric Interventional Radiology Service"
Joseph Young (Northwestern University)
"Effect of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 Alpha Levels on
Tumor Response Following Transcatheter Arterial
Embolization in Rabbit VX2 Liver Tumors"
2004 Grant Recipients
"Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Validation of Canine Models Reproducing Endoleaks"
Sophie Lerouge, PhD
Notre-Dame Hospital, Montreal
"The Contribution of Leukocytes to the Difference in Neointimal Formation � Responses to Arterial Injury Between Two Apolipoprotein E-deficient Mouse Strains�
Daniel A. Leung, MD
University of Virginia Health System
"Cryoplasty to Treat Anastomotic Venous Stenosis"
Clayton Trimmer, DO
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
"Evaluation of Cerebral Microemboli during Radiofrequency Ablation of Lung Tumors in a Canine Model"
Kamran Ahrar, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Aneurismal Flow Dynamics in Swine Model � an In Vivo MR Phase Contrast Study at 3 Tesla"
Shantanu Sinha, PhD
UCLA School of Medicine
"Percutaneous Interventional Hindlimb Model and Validation of Computed Tomography Angiography on Quantitation of Arteriogenesis in Rats Treated with Autologous Bone Marrow Cells�
Zhen W. Zhuang, MD
Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center