Pilot Program to Obtain Pre-Injury Data from NCAA Team Members Participating in a TBI Measurement Protocol

We propose to obtain pre-injury or off-season MRI scans from a cohort of student athletes who are
participating in the NCAA/DoD sponsored Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) study that is currently ongoing at UW-Madison. We hypothesize that these additional scans will increase the sensitivity of the post-injury scans to detect brain changes related to the TBI, which in turn will lead to better informed choices regarding return-to-play decisions.

$5.5M Alzheimer’s Disease Connectome Grant from NIH

NIH awarded a prestigious four-year Alzheimer’s Disease Connectome Grant of ~$5.5 million to a collaborative team headed by Dr. Shijiang Li, PhD, Department of Biophysics at Medical College of Wisconsin, and Drs. Barbara Bendlin, PhD, Department of Medicine and Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD, Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH).

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