NY Times · Dec 22, 2015
A Nearly $16 Million C.T.E. Grant, but N.F.L. Does Not Fund It
Photo Dr. Robert Stern, above, of the Boston University School of Medicine, said he was optimistic that the project would lead to many answers about chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Credit Marcus Yam for The New York Times Researchers at four universities and research institutes on Tuesday were awarded almost $16 million to find a way to diagnose, while victims are alive, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head hits in contact sports.
