The Center for Stroke Research (CSR) in the Department of Neurology at University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago is a nationally and internationally recognized research unit for the study of stroke epidemiology, prevention, treatment, diagnosis, and quality of care outcomes.  The CSR has a substantial track record for the conduct of large scale stroke clinical trials and management of complex epidemiological data bases. The CSR been one of the world leaders in the study of vascular cognitive impairment based on the successful conduct of studies of risk factor elucidation, prevention, treatment, development and validation of diagnostic criteria and advanced neuroimaging in this field. The CSR now has added a MRI division and an outreach into the area of brain injury and recovery with special emphasis on traumatic brain injury.

Education and Fellowship Opportunities

Information about undergraduate, graduate, and medical student research opportunities or fellowships may be obtained by contacting the following persons for the following areas: 

1. Deborah Little, PhD for MRI research opportunities (little@uic.edu)
2. David Nyenhuis, PhD for vascular cognitive impairment, dementia and general research opportunities (Nyenhuis@uic.edu)
3. Dilip K. Pandey, MD PhD for stroke epidemiology, quality outcome, and  clinical trial research opportunities (dpandey@uic.edu)

Stipends for assisting in research projects may be available and fellowship stipends are subject to availability of funds.