2025 Outstanding Project Awards

The ASNR Education Committee, chaired by Joshua P. Nickerson, MD, FACR, and Nancy Pham, MD, is proud to announce the 2025 ASNR Outstanding Project Awards.

Slide summaries from this year’s oral abstracts were reviewed before the ASNR25 meeting in Philadelphia, May 17-21, by members of the ASNR Education Committee, members of the ASNR Fellowship Directors Committee, and representatives from four societies (SNIS, ASHNR, ASPNR, ASSR), and winners were selected based on these review grades and comments. Congratulations to the authors and presenters of these exceptional projects!

ADULT BRAIN

Fractional Tumor Burden Accurately Predicts Histological Diagnosis
Presented by Melissa Prah

FUNCTIONAL

Deep Brain Stimulation Electrode Deviations are Associated with Brain Stiffness Interfaces Measured by Magnetic Resonance Elastography
Presented by Chengyuan Wu, MD, MSBmE

HEAD & NECK

Post Treatment Surveillance of NIRADS 1 Human Papillomavirus Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HPV OPSCC): The Emory Experience
Presented by Mark Greenhill, DO

INTERVENTIONAL

Spectrum of Liquid Embolic Distribution on Noncontrast Computed Tomography (NCCT) After Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization (MMAE): Implications for Imaging-Based Prognostication
Presented by Arjun Ganga, MD

PEDIATRICS

Imaging Differentiation of Pediatric Thalamic Tumors: Modified VASARI Features Distinguish Diffuse Midline Glioma and Pilocytic Astrocytoma
Presented by Nakul Sheth, MD

SPINE

Meso-scale CISS Imaging for the Detection of Dural Defects in Spinal CSF Leaks
Presented by Michelle Wegscheid, MD, PhD