Penn Medicine Wins NIH Award To Study Progressive Brain Damage From Concussions And More Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries

An international team of investigators led by experts at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a nearly $3 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to establish diagnostic criteria for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

The Penn-led team will search for common pathological changes in the post-mortem brains of over 200 patients with a history of traumatic brain injury and for comparison, over 1,500 postmortem brains from patients with other neurodegenerative diseases who were followed over time as part of other NIH funded grants . . .