Foundation-supported research has the power to shape careers, spark new discoveries and improve care for patients facing critical neurological illness.
Hear from grant recipients whose work—from early-stage ideas to transformative discoveries—demonstrates how Neurocritical Care Foundation support advances research, expands opportunity, and drives meaningful progress in neurocritical care, shaping the future of the field.
Edilberto Amorim, MD | 2016 Research Training Fellowship Recipient
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
UCSF Computational Precision Health | UC Berkeley, University of Washington (UW), and UCSF Weill Neurohub Investigator
"At the time of the fellowship, my research focused on resting-state and quantitative EEG analysis in acute brain injury, particularly cardiac arrest coma, with an emphasis on prognostication. The funding supported the development of quantitative EEG pipelines and large-scale data collection through multicenter neurocritical care collaborations across the United States and Europe. It also helped launch my independent laboratory at UCSF, which focuses on computational neurocritical care to better understand neurorecovery and secondary brain injury after neurologic injury.
The support enabled the creation of one of the largest multicenter neurophysiology datasets in cardiac arrest to date through the International Cardiac Arrest Research Consortium (I-CARE). This dataset became the foundation for the 2023 PhysioNet Challenge and has supported hundreds of publications in quantitative EEG, deep learning, and outcome prediction. The fellowship also provided the scientific foundation and preliminary data needed to secure subsequent funding from the NIH, Department of Defense, American Heart Association, and other foundations.
This program was instrumental in helping me transition from trainee to independent investigator and establish a multidisciplinary computational neuroscience and neurocritical care research program. The support fostered collaborations across engineering, neuroscience, critical care, and artificial intelligence while helping train the next generation of clinician-scientists and data scientists. Continued financial support is essential to sustain innovation in AI-driven neuroscience research and accelerate discoveries that improve outcomes for patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke, cardiac arrest, and disorders of consciousness."
Alvin S. Das, MD | 2025 Research Training Fellowship Recipient
Assistant Professor, Neurocritical Care Division, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
"I am deeply grateful to the Neurocritical Care Foundation for supporting my work through the 2025 Research Training Fellowship. While I am currently transitioning institutions and the fellowship funding has not yet been fully utilized, this award has already provided important support and momentum for my ongoing research focused on using proteomic approaches to better understand hypertensive arteriopathy—an understudied but important cause of cerebral small vessel disease and intracerebral hemorrhage.
The fellowship funds will directly support the analysis of high-throughput proteomic data, helping generate critical preliminary findings for future NIH grant applications and larger translational studies. In addition to advancing the scientific work itself, the fellowship has enabled continued engagement in neurocritical care research through conference participation, collaboration, and career development opportunities that are essential for early-career investigators.
The diseases encountered in neurocritical care are often devastating for patients and families, and there remains an urgent need for improved mechanistic understanding and therapeutic development. Continued support from programs like the Neurocritical Care Foundation Research Training Fellowship is especially important at a time when research costs continue to rise and preliminary data are increasingly necessary for competitive NIH funding applications. These programs empower early-career investigators to pursue innovative research, build independent research careers, and ultimately contribute to improving outcomes for critically ill neurologic patients.
I am sincerely thankful to the Neurocritical Care Foundation and its donors for their continued investment in trainees and physician-scientists working to advance the field of neurocritical care."