2025 ARRS Scholarships Announced

Two 2025 ARRS Scholarships have been granted to Matthew Lee, MD, at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Yale School of Medicine’s Luca Pasquini, MD, PhD. Provided by ARRS’ own The Roentgen Fund, the ARRS Scholarship supports early-career faculty members pursuing radiological research that promises to change how medical imaging is practiced.

A two-year grant totaling $180,000, the ARRS Scholarship aims to advance emerging scholars, as well as prepare them for positions of leadership. Drs. Lee and Pasquini will be formally recognized as recipients of the ARRS Scholarship during the opening ceremony of the 2025 ARRS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.

Dr Lee is an assistant professor of radiology in the abdominal imaging and intervention section at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He completed his medical degree, surgical internship, and diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Following residency, Dr. Lee served as an active-duty diagnostic radiologist in the United States Navy. Returning to the University of Wisconsin for an abdominal imaging and intervention fellowship, in 2022, he joined the faculty. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) applications in abdominal imaging, “opportunistic” imaging, body composition analysis, workflow optimization, and advancing radiology’s role in population health. Having published and presented extensively on these topics, Dr. Lee is particularly interested in applying novel AI tools to radiology datasets to gain insights into disease diagnosis, risk prediction, outcomes, and health disparities—while optimizing radiology resource utilization. Committed to expanding radiology’s impact on public and population health, he is passionate about leveraging large-scale imaging data to add value through enhanced prevention, improved patient outcomes, and reduced health care costs, particularly for preventable diseases.

Dr Pasquini earned his medical degree from the University of Florence in 2014, followed by a radiology residency and a PhD in neuroplasticity at La Sapienza University in Rome—completed in 2019 and 2023, respectively. During his early career in Italy, he held neuroradiology positions at La Sapienza University and Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome. In the United States, Dr. Pasquini advanced his career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), where he served as a research associate in the fMRI laboratory. Subsequently, he completed a Fellowship in neuro-oncology imaging and a nuclear medicine residency at MSKCC from 2020-2024. Having published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, he is internationally recognized for his contributions to the understanding of brain plasticity, earning multiple prestigious awards from leading radiological societies. Currently, he serves as assistant professor in radiology and biomedical imaging at Yale School of Medicine and as a neuroradiologist at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut.