Form 3 - Initial statement of beneficial ownership of securities

Exhibit 24

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints each of Phillip P. Chan and Kathleen P. Bloch, signing singly, as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact (the “Attorney-in Fact”), with full power of substitution and resubstitution, each with the power to act alone for the undersigned and in the undersigned’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to:

(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf, and submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required or considered advisable under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2) prepare, execute and submit to the SEC, any national securities exchange and CytoSorbents Corporation (the “Company”) any and all reports (including any amendment thereto) of the undersigned required or considered advisable under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations thereunder, with respect to the equity securities of the Company, including Form 3 (Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership of Securities), Form 4 (Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership), and Form 5 (Annual Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership); and

(3) seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information regarding transactions in the Company's equity securities from any third party, including the Company and any brokers, dealers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such third party to release any such information to the Attorney-in-Fact.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

(1) this Limited Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, the Attorney-in-Fact to act at his discretion on information provided to such Attorney-in-Fact without independent verification of such information;

(2) any documents prepared and/or executed by the Attorney-in-Fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Limited Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information as the Attorney-in- Fact, in his discretion, deems necessary or desirable;

(3) neither the Company nor the Attorney-in-Fact assumes any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the requirements of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or any liability of the undersigned for disgorgement of profits under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and

(4) this Limited Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under Section 16 of the Exchange Act, including, without, limitation, the reporting requirements under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act.

The undersigned hereby grants to the Attorney-in-Fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite, necessary or convenient to be done in connection with the foregoing, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that the Attorney-in-Fact, or his substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by authority of this Limited Power of Attorney.

This Limited Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 or 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in equity securities of the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the Attorney-in-Fact.

This Limited Power of Attorney shall be governed by and construed in accordance the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to the laws that might otherwise govern under applicable principles of conflicts of laws thereof.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Limited Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 8th day of August, 2023.