The RSNA Research and Education Foundation announced that it will fund 80 grants totaling $2.9 million in 2012.
This will be the largest amount of grant funding the foundation has ever provided in a single year, exceeding by $200,000 the prior record set in 2011.
Each dollar of grant money awarded to a recipient tends to generate more than $30 in subsequent funding from sources including the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), government agencies, corporations, and private foundations.
Grant recipients will perform research on a wide range of projects spanning different modalities and anatomic areas, including renal imaging in acute kidney injury, PET/CT imaging in the functional diagnosis of early-stage liver fibrosis, and hemodynamic assessment of valve-related aortic disease with cardiac MRI.
Awards for educational initiatives, aimed at improving teaching and training skills, include the development of an MR e-learning platform for Latin America.
The foundation has awarded more than $37 million in grant awards to nearly 1,000 investigators and educators, enabling more than $1 billion in additional research since its inception in 1984.
