The Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation named seven recipients of its 2026-27 Research Fellowship Grants and Young Clinician Investigator Award.
The award supports neurosurgery residents and early-career faculty pursuing research careers. The fellowship grants are available to residents in North American neurological surgery training programs, while the Young Clinician Investigator Award supports junior faculty within two years of completing clinical training, according to a June 16 news release.
Recipients of the 2026-27 awards are Alexander Perdomo-Pantoja, MD, of Washington University in St. Louis; Adriel Barrios-Anderson, MD, of the Seattle-based University of Washington; Spyridon Karadimas, MD, of Stanford (Calif.) University; Zachary Olmsted, MD, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles; Jawad Fares, MD, of Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University; Edwin Nieblas-Bedolla, MD, of the Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan; and Connor Liu, MD, of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.
The funded projects span several areas of neurosurgical research, including spinal cord injury recovery, epilepsy, brain arteriovenous malformations and glioblastoma.
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