Funding opportunities
Recently funded by the Foundation
2026 Student Conference Travel Award
“When Noise Misleads: Understanding the Impact of Correlated Noise on Quantitative Image Quality Metrics in MRI”
Andrianna Scott, PhD student, supervised by Dr. Steven Beyea
Awarded up to $3,000 CAD to support hotel, airfare and conference fees to attend the 2026 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa.
2026 Student Conference Travel Award
“Implementation of a pre-procedural screening questionnaire for risk factor stratification and augmented antibiotic prophylaxis prior to transrectal US-guided prostate biopsy: Impact on urosepsis rates”
Marley Blommers, medical student, supervised by Dr. Michael Rivers-Bowerman
Awarded up to $3,000 CAD to support hotel, airfare and conference fees to attend the 2026 European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, Austria.
2026 Summer Studentship
“Does the Absence of an Ancillary Feature Improve the Diagnostic Performance of CT/MRI LIRADS? An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis”
Danyaal Ansari, medical student, University of Ottawa, supervised by Dr. Andreu Costa
Awarded $ 6,000 CAD
2026 Summer Studentship
“Improved Clustering Methods for Radiomics Features in MRI of Glioma”
Aaron Carey, Undergraduate Physics, Dalhousie University, supervised by Dr. James Rioux
Awarded $ 4,000 CAD
2026 Summer Studentship
“Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning in Lung Cancer guided by CT-based Pulmonary Structure and Function Mapping”
Alina Crockett, Undergraduate Physics, UPEI, supervised by Dr. Marrissa McIntosh
Awarded $ 10,000
2026 Summer Studentship
“Identifying sex-specific magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of the tumour microenvironment in glioblastoma”
Savannah Robichaud, Undergraduate Microbiology & Immunology, Dalhousie University, supervised by Dr. James Rioux
Awarded $10,000
2026 Support for Open Access Publishing Fees
Resident: Dr. Patrick Rogers, PGY5
Supervisor: Dr. David Volders
“Coil migration through two flow diverting stents”
BMJ Case Reports
Awarded: $ 947.17 CAD
2025 Support for Open Access Publishing Fees
Resident: Dr. Selina Dong, PGY2
Supervisor: Dr. David Volders
Incidental aneurysm rupture during endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke
BMJ Case Reports
Awarded $ 978.17 CAD
2025 Summer Studentship
Evaluating the Reproducibility of Radiomics Features in MRI
Aaron Carey (student), Dr. James Rioux (supervisor)
Awarded up to $5,000 CAD.
2025 Student Conference Travel Award
Implementation of a biparametric prostate MRI protocol with a recall system for intravenous contrast: an analysis of recall rates and comparison of PIRADS category distribution
JD Brown (student), Dr. Sharon Clarke (supervisor)
Awarded up to $2,000 CAD to support hotel, airfare and conference fees to attend the Canadian Association of Radiologists Annual Scientific Meeting in Montreal, Quebec in April 2025.