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Schmainda Lab Receives ASNR Awards

May 20, 2025

Members of the Kathleen Schmainda lab in the MCW Department of Biophysics attended the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) 2025 annual meeting.

Melissa A. Prah, engineer II in the Schmainda lab, and co-authors Max O. Krucoff in the Department of Neurosurgery and Kathleen M. Schmainda received the prestigious ASNR Adult Brain Outstanding Project Award along with a $500 stipend for their project, titled "Fractional tumor burden accurately predicts histologic diagnosis."

Additionally, Kathleen M. Schmainda, Melissa A. Prah, Felicity Giampietro, Max O. Krucoff received the ASNR Merit Award in recognition of their educational poster exhibit, titled "Delta T1 (dT1) Maps for the Determination of Ablation Extent After Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT)."

Tagged: Biophysics Cancer Neurosurgery Research – Basic Sciences Research – Clinical Research - Translational

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