As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco applied for and was awarded more than $30 million dollars in research funding. These grants will fund more than a dozen projects investigating everything from neurodegenerative disorders, the progression of diabetes and prostate cancer, as well as improving existing techniques used for advanced MR studies. A list of these Award Winners follows:
| Recipient |
Award Title |
Award Amount |
| Michael Weiner |
Amyloid Imaging, VMCI and Analysis for ADNI |
$24,000,000.00 |
| Daniel Vigneron, John Kurhanewicz, Xiaoliang Zhang |
Technique Development for Hyperpolarized C-13 MR Studies |
$1,221,350.00 |
| Michael Weiner |
Resource for MRI Neurodegenerative Disorders |
$999,850.00 |
| Sharmila Majumdar |
A Multi-Disciplinary Multi-Department Core on Musculoskeletal Imaging |
$954,923.00 |
| Thomas Link |
Cortical Bone Porosity Identifies Type II Diabetes Subjects with Fragility Fractures |
$840,308.00 |
| Dieter Meyerhoff |
Polysubstance Use and Chronic Smoking: Neuroimaging and Cognition |
$462,250.00 |
| Daniel Vigneron |
Metabolic Imaging of the Prostate Using 3-D MRSI |
$307,206.00 |
| Daniel Vigneron |
Technique Development for Hyperpolarized C-13 MR Studies |
$193,370.00 |
| Xiaojuan Li |
In Vivo Early Detection of Cartilage Degeneration Using High Field MRI |
$99,986.00 |
| Youngho Seo |
Prostate Cancer Management with Multimodaility Imaging |
$95,975.00 |
| Tracy McKnight |
Identification of MRS Markers of Glioma Progression |
$49,195.00 |
