Early Career Award Recognizes Glasser’s Contributions to Human Brain Mapping

Matthew F. Glasser, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology for WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), received the Early Career Investigator Award from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). The award recognizes early-career researchers who have made significant contributions to human brain mapping.

Glasser co-directs a brain imaging laboratory in the Biomedical MR Center (BMRC) with David C. Van Essen, PhD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience. Their NIH-funded work focuses on expanding the atlases and acquisition and analysis methods developed through the Human Connectome Project, a decade-long effort that reshaped the brain imaging field, and translating those advances into clinical practice. Glasser is best known for his work mapping the 180 areas of each human cerebral cortical hemisphere using multiple MRI modalities as part of the project.

In addition to this latest honor, Glasser is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and previously received the 2022 Radiological Society of North America Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award and the 2017 MIR Hugh M. Wilson Award in Radiology. He earned his medical and doctoral degrees through the WashU Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program before completing a diagnostic radiology residency on the research residency track and a neuroradiology fellowship at MIR. He was also the department’s first resident to participate in the American Board of Radiology B. Leonard Holman Research Pathway, which allowed him to pursue clinical and research training concurrently.

Glasser accepted the award in person at the OHBM 2026 Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, France.