Awards

Resident/Fellow SIR Annual Scientific Meeting Research Award

Application Deadline: November 15

The Resident/Fellow Research Award is designed to provide residents and fellows an opportunity to attend and present scientific research at the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting. The intent is to expose young researchers, who wish to further their careers in interventional radiology, to the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting.

The Annual Meeting Research Award Committee selects up to three recipients of this award each year.

Recipients will receive:

  • Complimentary registration
  • Travel award up to $1000, with other half to be paid by awardees' institution

Eligibility:

1. Candidate must be the Principal or Co-principal investigator of the research project, and must be the listed abstract presenter

2. Candidate must be enrolled in a training program related to interventional radiology

3. Project must contain original scientific research, and the abstract must be presented as an oral presentation.

Required Materials:

1. Abstract Control ID Number (Log into the 2010 SIR abstract submission Web site; six digit number starting with a '9').

2. Applicant’s CV

3. Letter of support from applicant’s department or institution stating that one-half of the total allowable costs of the applicant’s travel will be reimbursed by the department or institution

4. Letter of endorsement from an SIR member if the department chair or fellowship director is not a member

2011 SIR Foundation Annual Scientific Meeting Resident/Fellow Research Award

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Sarah Beth White
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Treatment of HCC with an ultrasound sensitive polymeric drug carrier in a rat model.

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Manon Buijs
Johns Hopkins University: School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Anti-glycolytic therapy combined with an image-guided minimally invasive delivery strategy for the treatment of breast cancer.

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Samdeep Mouli
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Electro-nanotherapy: A Novel Locoregional Therapy for Liver Tumors.

2010 Resident/Fellow SIR Foundation Annual Scientific Meeting Research Award


Ajita Deodhar, M.B.B.S

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
Irreversible electroporation in swine kidney:radiological-pathological correlation

2009 Resident/Fellow SIR Foundation Annual Scientific Meeting Research Award

Lee Coryell - University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Labor and Resource Utilization in Maintaining Hemodialysis AV Fistulae vs AV Grafts

Edward Lee - UCLA Medical Center
Irreversible Electroporation (NanoKnife) in Treatment of Rabbit VX2 Liver Tumor: Preliminary Data

Ahsun Riaz - Northwestern University
Chemoembolization vs Radioembolization: Comparison of Toxicity, Imaging Response and Long-term Outcomes in 100 TACE vs 104 Y90 Patients

2008 Resident/Fellow SIR Foundation Annual Scientific Meeting Research Award

Kwang-Hun Lee, MD - Johns Hopkins Hospital
Distribution of Iron Oxide Embospheres after TAE in the Vx-2 Liver Tumor: Evaluation with MR Imaging and Pathology

Maurice A.A.J. van den Bosch, MD, PhD - Stanford University Medical Center
A Novel Rat Hepatocellular Carcinoma Model Designed for In Vivo Evaluation of Image-Guided Therapies

Alicia Laborda, DVM, PhD - Hospital Clinico Universitario Lozano Blesa
Stent with Variable Radial Force Sections for the Treatment of the Carotid Stenosis Animal Study

2007 Resident/Fellow Research Award Recipients

Colin P Cantwell, MD - Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Radiofrequency Ablation of Bone with Cooled Probes and Impedance Control Energy Delivery in a Pig Model

Darren P Lum, MD - University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
Renal CT Perfusion in Treatment of a Swine Model of Unilateral Renal Artery Stenosis: Validation with Microspheres

Eleni Liapi, MD - Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Serial Assessment of VX-2 Tumor Response to Intra-arterial Infusion of 3-bromopyruvate by FDG PET/CT Imaging