(Formerly the Phillip H. Meyers, MD Annual Research Grant)

The Howard S. Stern Research Grant is sponsored by Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. for SGR Members in the amount of $15,000. The Grant is to facilitate visionary research in medical imaging by making funds available for pilot projects on ideas that are intellectually challenging but not yet well enough developed to be suitable for funding by mainstream granting agencies.

2010 Howard S. Stern Research Grant Recipient

Raul Uppot, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Investigators: Anand K. Singh, MD; Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD; Abhinav Vij, MD; Matthew M. Hutter, MD; Alexander Guimaraes, MD, PhD; Dushyant V. Sahani, MD

Volumetric Quantification of Visceral Fat on CT: Can it be a marker for the metabolic syndrome?

Past Recipients of the Howard S. Stern Research Grant

2009
Juergen Willmann, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine

Anti-Angiogenic Treatment Assessment in Abdominal and Pelvic Cancer Using Molecular Ultrasound: First Step Towards Clinical Translation

2008
Joel Fletcher, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester

Development of Novel Tools for Projection and Image Space Denoising to Improve Image Quality and Reduce Radiation Dose at Contrast-enhanced Abdominal CT

2007
Marc Gollub, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Ex-Vivo Molecular Polyp Imaging Using 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in the Determination of Protein and Gene Expression Signatures of Premalignant Polyp

2006
Claude Sirlin, MD
University of California, San Diego

MR Imaging of Liver Fibrosis in Rats

2005
Hayden Head, MD
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Thermal Ablation of the Liver: Design of Effective Composite Ablations for the Treatment of Large Liver Tumors

2004
Stephanie Carlson, MD
Mayo Clinic

Image-Guided Gene Therapy and Virotherapy of Pancreatic Cancer

2003
not awarded

2002
Susanna Lee, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Imaging of Acute Mesenteric Ischemia Using Multidetector CT and CT Angiography in a Porcine Model: Description of Disease Evolution with Surgical Correlation

2001
Michael Lavell, MD
New York University

MRI as the Sole Preoperative Imaging Modality for Right Hepatectomy in Potential Living Liver Transplant Donor Candidates

2000
Jonathan Kruskal, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Molecular Imaging for Predicting Hepatic Metastases from Colorectal Cancer

Prior to the named research awards, the SGR would give the SGR Research Award. The following members received this award.

1997
Sherry Teefey, MD
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Animal Research

1996
R. Brooke Jeffrey, MD
Stanford University Hospital

Analysis of 3-D Colonoscopy