Seed Grant Awardees

2026 Seed Grant Awardee - Farbod Khosravi, MD

 

Farbod Khosravi, MD

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Validation of AI-Driven Plaque Quantification on Photon-Counting CT Using Patient-Specific 3D-Printed Coronary Phantoms with Defined Plaque Composition

2025 Seed Grant Awardee - Milan Vecsey-Nagy, MD, PhD

 

Milan Vecsey-Nagy, MD, PhD

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Towards the Standardization of Quantitative Coronary Plaque Characterization: Benchmarking Photon-Counting Detector CT Against Intravascular Ultrasound

2024 Seed Grant Awardee - Camila Urzua Fresno, MD, MScCH

Camila Urzua Fresno, MD, MScCH

University of Colorado, Denver, CO

4D-Flow CMR Characterization of the Right Ventricular/Pulmonary Artery Axis Pre and Post Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy in CTEPH Patients

2023 Seed Grant Awardee - Christian Houbois, MD

Christian Houbois, MD

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Association of Immune Check point Inhibitor Therapy for Cancer With Early Myocardial Tissue and Biomarker Changes During Treatment-Implication for Risk of Myocarditis and Cardiomyopathy

2022 Seed Grant Awardee - Avanti Gulhane, MD

Avanti Gulhane, MD

University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington

Potential Applications of Radiomics Based Texture Analysis of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) in Early Sarcoidosis

2021 Seed Grant Awardee - Scott Bugenhagen, MD

Scott Bugenhagen, MD

Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

Absolute Perfusion Reserve: Theory and Measurement of a New Metric for Coronary Lesion Grading

2019 Seed Grant Awardee - Matthew Lazarus, MD

Matthew Lazarus, MD

Predictors and Frequency of Mortality in Patients With Imaging-Diagnosed Pulmonary Embolism

 

NASCI extends its sincere appreciation to Heartflow for its sponsorship of the 2019 Seed Grant Award.