News & Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our faculty’s latest achievements, awards and honors.
12.10.2025The AAR (Association of Academic Radiology)/AMSER published an online case of the month featuring work by Alexander Nemeth. He worked with Dr. Judith Gadde of Lurie Children's Hospital and a UIC medical student who is doing a rotation at Northwestern.
03.27.2025IR Quarterly features interim results of the Frontier trial studying yttrium-90 (Y-90) for glioblastoma of which Sam Mouli is the principal investigator. This microsphere therapy may lead to new IR treatment options for glioblastoma. The abstract, by Dr. Mouli and his team, was recognized as the SIR 2025 Abstract of the Year.
12.11.2024Lee Rogers, ’59 MD, professor emeritus and longtime former chair of Radiology, has died at 90.
10.31.2024Treatment with endovascular thrombectomy did not significantly improve outcomes after 90 days in patients with a large core stroke, as compared to patients who received standard stroke care alone, according to a recent clinical trial published in JAMA.
10.31.2024Northwestern Medicine's Faculty Profiles feature Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim's work enhancing the effectiveness of cryoimmunotherapy in treating cancer.
09.27.2024Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a more effective method of delivering a cutting-edge cancer treatment, according to findings published in the journal ACS Nano.
07.26.2024Dr. Mohammed Elbaz's study "4D virtual Catheter (4D vCath) for multi-factorial hemodynamics in pulmonary hypertension" has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
We are tackling a deadly heart condition called pulmonary hypertension (PH), where the risk of death is seven times higher than normal. Our focus is on its most severe form, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), which usually gives patients only three years to live. Diagnosing PAH quickly and accurately is crucial because treatments are most effective only at earlier stages of the disease, and using its treatments on similar conditions can be harmful. However, current tests are expensive, complicated, invasive, and can take up to 4 years to provide the first diagnosis. By integrating mathematical modeling, advanced MRI imaging, and physics (fluid dynamics), this application goal is to develop a new, quick, noninvasive one-scan solution, the '4D Right-Heart virtual catheter’, to transform how we diagnose and monitor this life-threatening condition, offering faster diagnosis, better outcomes and making care more timely accessible to these suffering patients.
07.26.2024Congratulations to Dr. Lirong Yan whose study, "Imaging of cerebral microvascular pulsatility in cerebral small vessel disease," has received funding.
Cerebral small vessel disease is a major public health challenge and responsible for ~30% of strokes and at least 40% of dementia cases. This application will characterize cerebral microvascular pulsatility using two advanced MRI techniques on widely accessible 3T MRI, which may be a sensitive vascular marker of cSVD.
Funding is from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute On Aging.
06.20.2024Dr. Bradley Allen and co-principal investigators Michael Markl, Ann Ragin, and Ulas Bagci receive funding from the Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund for their work on aorta blood flow.
06.05.2024Bharat B. Mittal, MD, the William N. Brand, MD, Professor of Radiation Oncology, has announced that he will be stepping down as chair of the department of Radiation Oncology.
03.11.2024Amir Borhani, MD receives Abdominal Radiology's inaugural Exemplary Editor Award. It recognizes outstanding Associate editors who have demonstrated exceptional editorial skills and dedication to the journal.
02.09.2024Dr. Ulas Bagci's article, "AI powered road network prediction with fused low-resolution satellite imagery and GPS trajectory," includes the discovery that the ResUnet model outperforms U-Net and D-Linknet in road extraction tasks.