Please note, as of September 2022, the DFRRF has suspended the Intramural and Leverage project grant competitions.
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2022 Summer Studentship | Jessica Trevors (student), Dr. Kim Brewer (Supervisor) Evaluating immunotherapy responses in orthotopic ovarian cancer | $ 5,000 |
2022 Summer Studentship | Erin Gaudette (student), Dr. Matthias Schmidt (Supervisor) Development of a Multi-Parametric Model to Distinguish between Pseudoprogression and Progression of Glioblastoma Multiforme | $ 3,000 US Matching RSNA Medical Student Research Grant ($ 3,000 US) |
2022 Summer Studentship | Darcie Wilson (student), Dr. Robert J. Abraham (Supervisor) Radiographic patterns and implications on the prognosis of ATV-related trauma in the adult population | $ 5,000 |
2022 Summer Studentship | Kathleen MacMillan (student), Dr. Daria Manos (Supervisor) Recognizing, Preventing and Treating Radiologist Elbow | $ 5,000 |
2022 Leverage | No funding awarded. | Max. $10,000 |
2021 Intramural | No applications were received for this round. | Max. $10,000 |
2021 Summer Studentship | Toulany B (student), Abraham R (supervisor). A Retrospective Cohort Study Comparing Simple Internal Jugular Tunneled Central Venous Catheter Exchange to SVCFibrin Sheath/Stenosis Angioplasty in Conjunction with Central Venous Catheter Exchange in Chronic Dialysis Patients | $2,500 Matching Dalhousie Dept. of Diagnostic Radiology ($2,500) |
2021 Summer Studentship | Gaudette E (student), Schmidt M (supervisor). Characterizing the relationship between glioma neovascularityand extracellular vesiclerelease with dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI and liquid biopsy | $3,000US Matching RSNA Medical Student Research Grant ($3,000US) |
2021 Summer Studentship | Hodgson D (student), Abraham R (supervisor) A Retrospective Cohort Study Comparing Simple Internal Jugular Tunneled Central Venous Catheter Exchange to SVCFibrin Sheath/Stenosis Angioplasty in Conjunction with Central Venous Catheter Exchange in Chronic Dialysis Patients | $3,000US Matching RSNA Medical Student Research Grant ($3,000US) |
2021 Leverage | No applications were received for this round. | Max. $10,000 |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2020 Intramural | No applications were received for this round. | Max. $10,000 |
2020 Summer Studentship | Pak V (student), Quraan M (supervisor) Translating biomarkers for traumatic stress disorders in Canada’s Military | $3,000 Matching IWK Summer Studentship ($5,000) |
2020 Summer Studentship | Wong A (student), Volders D (supervisor) Development and validation of a deep machine learning tool for automated hematoma volume segmentation using 3D convolutional neural networks | $3,000US Matching RSNA Medical Student Research Grant ($3,000US) |
2020 Leverage | No applications were received for this round. | Max. $10,000 |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2019 Intramural | Costa A, Guida A, Abdolell M Deep Learning Algorithm to Differentiate and Subtype Benign and Malignant Renal Tumours | $10,000.00 |
2019 Summer Studentship | Nurmsoo S (student), Huynh T (supervisor), Beyea S, Guida A Development and validation of a deep machine learning tool for automated hematoma volume segmentation using 3D convolutional neural networks | $3,000US Matching RSNA Medical Student Research Grant ($3,000US) |
2019 Summer Studentship | Sobey-Skelton C (student), Brewer K (supervisor) Evaluation of magnetotactic bacteria as a novel MRI contrast agent for immune cell tracking | $2,500 Matching NSERC ($4,500) |
2019 Summer Studentship | Wang Z (student), Costa A (supervisor) Development of a deep learning algorithm to differentiate benign from malignant renal masses | $2,500 Matching NS Co-Operative Education Incentive ($4,500) |
2019 Summer Studentship | Cullen L (student), Clarke S (supervisor) Curation of a prostate MRI database for computer aided detection of prostate cancer using deep learning | $2,500 Matching Canada Summer Jobs ($3,095) |
2019 Leverage | Clarke S, Rioux J, Guida A Diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma using free-breathing dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI and recurrent convolutional neural networks: a pilot study | $10,000 Matching NSHA Research Fund ($24,706) |
2019 Leverage | Mata-Mbemba D, Dumbarton T, Beattie T, Alwazeer A, Abdolell M, Wood E Long-term neurocognitive outcome of children who received MRI imaging under general anesthesia: a pilot study | $10,000 Matching IWK Diagnostic Imaging Dept. RF ($5,000) and IWK Anesthesia Dept. RF ($10,000) |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2018 Intramural | Costa A, Clarke S (CoPIs); Peltekian K, McLeod M, Abdolell M, Rioux J, Bowen C, Stueck A (coinvestigators) 3T multi-parametric liver health MRI in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease | $10,000 Matching NSHA Research Fund ($25,000) |
2018 Intramural | Huynh T (PI) Development and validation of a deep machine learning tool for automated hematoma volume segmentation using 3D convolutional neural networks | $10,000 |
2018 Intramural | Quraan M, Ikeda K (CoPIs); Abdolell M, Beyea S Magnetoencephalography biomarkers of epilepsy and their relationship to seizure onset zone | $10,000 |
2018 Intramural | Clarke S (PI); Bowen C, McAllindon D Assessment of hepatic metabolism in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with Phosphorus-31 spectroscopy | $10,000 |
2018 Summer Studentship | Sobey-Skelton C (student), Brewer K (supervisor) Using MRI to track antigen transport in immunotherapy | $1,500 Matching NSERC ($4,500) |
2018 Summer Studentship | Kelly B (student), Brewer K (supervisor) Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Monitor Immune Cell Recruitment in Response to IDO Inhibitor Treatment in the 4T1 Tumour Model | $1,000.00 Matching IWK Summer Studentship ($5,000) |
2018 Leverage | No applications were received for this round. | Max. $10,000 |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2017 Intramural | Bardouille T, Beyea S, Quraan M Assessing the quality of pre-surgical mapping scan in magnetoencephalography (MEG) | $9,775 |
2017 Intramural | Crocker C, Manos D, Borgaonkar J Examining the rates of marijuana (cannibis) use and potential impact of cannibis smoking on pulmonary disease in patients requesting computed tomography | $9,598 |
2017 Summer Studentship | Clarke S, Gerson R Quantification of hepatic, splenic, and pancreatic fat fraction and R2* by 3T MR – a cross-sectional study | $4,000.00 Matching RSNA Medical Student Grant ($3,000US) |
2017 Summer Studentship | Beyea S, Mason A, Hall K Examining intra-subject correlations of image quality metrics as a function of prospective data compression | $2,500.00 Matching NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award ($4,500.00) |
2017 Summer Studentship | Brewer K, Lazarev J Optimization of PET/MRI Artifact Correction | $2,500.00 Matching NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award ($4,500.00) |
2017 Summer Studentship | Brewer K, Gonzalez V Using molecular imaging to evaluate a vaccine immunotherapy in an ovarian cancer | $2,500.00 Matching IWK Summer Studentship research program grant ($2,500.00) |
2017 Leverage | Rioux J, Clarke S, Costa A, Williams G Evaluation of emerging methods for quantitative MR imaging of chronic pancreatitis | $9,700.00 Matching NSHA Research Fund ($25,000.00) |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2016 Intramural | Clarke S, Patterson S Identification of prostate cancer for MR images using machine learning | $8,610 |
2016 Intramural | Shankar J, Sorhaindo V, Urquhart R, Phillips S, Gubitz G, Green L, Campbell S, Simpkin W Implementation of “rapid” endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) – prospective evaluation | $10,000.00 Matching NSHA TRIC grant ($60,000.00) |
2016 | Mawko G, Sattarivand M, Shouldice E Matlab source code software tool to convert GE PET sinogram raw data format into Interfile | $5,000 |
2016 | Clarke S, Lakner P Development of machine learning algorithms to analyze multi contrast MRI: applications to prostate cancer, cholesteatoma and chronic liver disease | $5,000 |
2016 | King JP, Mitchell M, Boyd G, Wong I, Abdolell M Detection of cartilage delamination using quantitative T1rho MRI | $10,000.00 Matching NSHA Research Foundation ($4,725.00) |
2016 | Shankar J, Chan W, Green L, Maxner C, Mishra A, Purdy A Tranverse venous sinus stenosis on Magnetic Resonance Imaging in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension – a pilot study | $10,000.00 Matching NSHA RF ($15,000.00) and NSH Research Foundation ($14,895.00) |
2016 | Mawko G, Syme A Development of a radiation dosimetry framework for a radioembolic therapy for liver cancer | $10,000.00 Matching Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute ($10,000.00) |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2015 | Beyea S, Bardouille T, Bowen C, Hashmi J, Omisade A Creating a new algorithm for data-driven processing of resting-state fMRI networks | $5,000.00 |
2015 | Costa A, Clarke S, Peltekian K, Abdolell M, Bowen C Noninvasive differentiation of non-alcoholic fatty liver from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with Gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI: a prospective pilot study | $9,978.00 |
2015 | Duffy S, Clarke S, Crocker C, Arnason T, Hoogerboord M A feasibility study distinguishing benign from malignant polyps using high resolution diffusion weighted 3T MRI | $10,000.00 |
2015 | Rioux J Validation of a quantitative 3T MRI method for diagnosis of neurological disease | $7,925.00 |
2015 | Shankar J, Darvesh S, Green R, Slipp P, Erdogan M Computed tomography perfusion in determination of brainstem death in patients with severe head injury at the time of their first diagnostic imaging – a pilot study | $10,000.00 Matching $15,000.00 – NSHA Research Foundation $4,327.00 – NSHA Research Foundation |
2015 | Suhail A, Manos D, Bas B, Crocker C Referral patterns and route-to-diagnosis of lung cancer in Nova Scotia | $7,398.30 |
2015 | Tonkopi E, Manos D, Duffy S Organ dose measurements and determination of effective dose for clinical CT protocols using an anthropomorphic phantom | $6,730.80 |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2014 | Abdolell M, Iles S, Caines J, Lightfoot C, Rivers-Bowerman M, Barnes P, Payne J, Tsuruda K Toward Personalized Breast Cancer Risk Assessment: Breast Density, Pathology and Clinical Risk Factors | $9,771.66 |
2014 | Beyea S, Bardouille T, McNeely D, Stevens T, Murthy M Improving Patient Compliance to Non-invasive Language Mapping using Engaging Videos | $9,798.90 |
2014 | Burrell S, Walker D Accuracy of Bone Scan vs. PET Scan for Detection of Osseous Metastases: Clinical Experience at QEII | $2,500 |
2014 | Shankar J, Hodgson L Diffusion and Perfusion Weighted Imaging in Characterization of Brain Tumors | $5,000 |
2014 | Schmidt M, Khan U Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Investigation of Epilepsy: A Survey of Current Practice at Referral Centres Across Canada | $2,500 |
2014 | Shankar J, Pickett G CT Perfusion Imaging to Predict Vasospasm in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Pilot Study | $10,000 |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2013 | Shankar J, Bata I CT Perfusion in Prognostication of Patients in Coma Following Cardiac Arrest: A Pilot Study | $10,000 |
2013 | Tonkopi E, Abdolell M Assessment of Patient Radiation Dose from CT Examinations in Nova Scotia | $10,000 |
2013 | Manos D, Walker M Are CT Requisitions Dangerously Misleading? | $1,666.60 |
2013 | Shankar J, Bata A Does Diffusion Restriction Precede the Development of Enhancing Tumour in a Subset of Patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme? | $5,000 |
2013 | Manos D, Johnston M, Xu Z Early Detection of Lung Cancer – A Pan-Canadian Study | $10,000.00 |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2012 | Shankar J CT Perfusion in the Characterization and prognostication of Cerebral Glioma | $8,250.00 |
2012 | Yen P, Bailly G, Abdolell M, Pringle C Pilot Study: Assessment of Dual Energy KUB Radiographic Examination for the Detection of Renal Calculus | $5,777.95 |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2011 | Borgaonkar J, Manos D, Miller R Implementation of a Patient Questionnaire to Optimize Recommendations for the Followup of CT Detected Pulmonary Nodules using the Fleischner Society’s Guidelines | $2,622.00 |
2011 | Burrell S, MacDonald D, Abdolell M Quantitative Parameters for a Model of Whole Body Metabolic Tumour Burden in Patients with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma using PET/CT: Phase 2 | $5,000.00 |
2011 | Ross A, Mulroy L, Rajaraman M, Abdolell M Assessment of Halifax Produced FDG in the Evaluation of Focal Lung Pathology and Impact on Patient Management | $3,400 |
2011 | Bowen C, Patterson S Fast, Artifact-free Whole-brain fMRI Using Balanced Steady State Free Precession Acquisitions | $10,000 |
Competition | Awarded to | Funding |
2010 | Ross A, Rajaraman S, Taylor M, Rajaraman M, Abdolell M PET-CT Scan Use in Head and Neck cancer: The Halifax Experience | $2,500 |
2010 | Clarke J, Abdolell M Development and Evaluation of an Online Modular Radiopharmacy Curriculum and Training Program | $7,000.00 |