UCSF Radiology Awarded Four 2020-21 RSNA Research & Education Foundation Grants

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)’s Research & Education Foundation recently completed reviews of its 2020 grant applications. The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce that four grants were awarded to faculty and trainees.

Ryan Kohlbrenner, MD, assistant professor in the Interventional Radiology Section, received a Research Seed Grant for his project titled “Pharmacokinetic Comparison of Selective Prostatic Arterial and Intravenous PSMA Radioligand Infusions in Treatment of Prostate Cancer Patients.”

Andreas Rauschecker, MD, PhD, assistant professor in residence in the Neuroradiology Section, received a Research Scholar Grant for his project titled “Human-interpretable AI-based Quantitative Metrics for Primary CNS Lymphoma Prognosis.”

Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS, clinical fellow and 2019-20 T32 scholar, received a Research Resident/Fellow Grant for his project titled “Longitudinal Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Nodules in National Lung Cancer Screening Data Using Gated Recurrent Unit.”

Evan Calabrese, MD, PhD, radiology resident, received a Research Resident/Fellow Grant for his project titled “MR Imaging Deep Learning and Radiomics Features for Guiding Individualized Therapy in Diffuse Gliomas.”

These grants were among the top-ranked and approved for funding by the R&E Board of Trustees. Applications are peer-reviewed by study sections modeled on those used by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Grant funding decisions are made by the RSNA Foundation's Board of Trustees based on amount of available funds for new grants, overall impact scores and programmatic balance.