Research Scholar Grant Receives NIH R01 Grant
Aging and neurodegeneration research leads to award
2015 ASNR/RSNA Research Scholar Grant recipient Manu S. Goyal, MD, MSc, secured a Research Project Grant (R01) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging, along with co-principal investigator, Andrei Vlassenko, MD.
Dr. Goyal, assistant professor of radiology and neurology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and his fellow researchers will study whether levels of aerobic glycolysis in the brain provide resilience against aging and neurodegeneration. The research will particularly look at brain atrophy, aging-related changes in cognition and clinical conversion to mild-cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Goyal is also a co-investigator on a separately funded R01, with Dr. Vlassenko and Marcus Raichle, MD, on how brain metabolism relates to Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers.
“The RSNA Research Scholar Grant was critical in getting me to this point, both in terms of protecting my research time and also in providing access to the RSNA Advanced Course in Grant Writing, where I was able to develop my protocol for this R01 submission,” Dr. Goyal said.
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