Brain trauma research at the University of Pittsburgh is a multidisciplinary, multi-departmental research program aimed at improving outcome following severe traumatic brain injury. The Brain Trauma Research Center (BTRC) has been established to facilitate this research.

The BTRC is anchored by a Program Project grant funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health, NIH. The center is comprised of a core team of investigators from the Departments of Neurosurgery, Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, Nursing, and Psychiatry.

The BTRC has strong links to the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research and the Department of Physical Medicine. Research conducted both at our center and at other brain injury research programs clearly demonstrates the potential for improving outcome using therapies designed to treat biochemical derangements that occur following impact to the brain. In order to identify the most critical of these sequelae of brain injury and to find newer therapies that are effective in treating them, the Brain Trauma Research Center has established several basic science brain trauma laboratories and clinical research projects.