SSR 2025 Hot Topic Grant

Award: Up to $4,000.00 to Principal Investigator

Eligibility: Residents, MSK fellows, and SSR full members. Residents and fellows must have an SSR full member sponsor. Grant recipients are expected to be or become members-in-training (MIT) or full SSR members, if eligible for membership, to receive funding.

Criteria: Grants should be focused on topics of current importance to the field of MSK radiology, such as:

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Emerging imaging techniques and interventions
• Precision medicine
• Comparative effectiveness
• MSK radiology education
• Sustainability
• Large language models

Application Opens: September 27, 2024

Deadline for Application: December 31, 2024

Selection: Applications will be reviewed by the SSR Research Committee with a final recommendation submitted to the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee reserves final approval on all grants and is not required to award the grant annually.

Announcement: The winner will be announced at the SSR Annual Meeting. Results will be presented by a podium presentation at the following year’s SSR Annual Meeting. Progress during the year will be reported in writing to the Research Committee, which will supply advice and mentorship as needed.

Timeline:

• One-year grant with no penalty option for a two-year extension
• If work is not completed after one year, winner must submit to the SSR Research Committee a detailed status update and budgetary information
• Proposed one-time lifetime award (no reapplications)

Required Components:

1. Specific aims (0.5 page maximum)
2. Research plan (1.5 page maximum)
3. Summary statement of the clinical impact/need for this research (0.5 page maximum)
4. Roles of research team members (0.5 page maximum)
5. Biosketch of all research team members. Please use the NIH Biosketch (Non-Fellowship) Format (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/biosketch.htm)