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Leader in Innovation Award

SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Foundation Annual Grants for Science Research

Funding Amount

Complimentary registration, transportation, and lodging for SIR Annual Meeting

Deadline

June 1, 2026

54 days left

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Leader in Innovation Award

Status: Open

Purpose: Recognizes and promotes innovation within interventional radiology, continuing IR's historical innovative development that has revolutionized medicine over the last 40 years. Acknowledges individuals who have conceptualized and implemented an idea that has had advantageous impact on the practice of interventional radiology.

Award Details:

  • Complimentary registration, transportation, and lodging for SIR's Annual Meeting

  • Multiple recipients selected annually
  • Eligible Innovation Types:

  • Device

  • Technique

  • Approach

  • Clinical practice model

  • Any innovation with significant improvement upon quality of patient care or economics of interventional practice
  • Eligibility:

  • Nomination required by a colleague

  • All applications received in the last 3 years will be considered for the upcoming award
  • Geographic Scope: Not restricted

    2025 Recipients:

  • Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD, FSIR

  • John A. Kaufman, MD, MS, FSIR

  • M. Victoria Marx, MD, FSIR

  • Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FSIR
  • Contact: SIR Foundation Grants & Awards, grants@sirweb.org

    How to Apply

    How to Apply

    1. Nomination Required
    - Award requires nomination by a colleague (self-nomination not accepted)
    - Nominator submits nomination through online portal

    2. Submission Deadline
    - Deadline: June 1, 2026 (5 p.m. ET)
    - Deadlines remain whether or not date falls on weekend and/or holiday

    3. Multi-Year Consideration
    - All applications received in the last 3 years will be considered for the upcoming award

    Required Information

    Details on specific nomination materials not provided in content. Refer to nomination portal for complete requirements.

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    science-research

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