$ 16 Million Dollar Grant Awarded to Dr. Robert Stern
Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center (BU ADC)/Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Program is excited to announce that Dr. Robert Stern, professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and anatomy and neurobiology at BU School of Medicine (MED), and clinical core director for the BU ADC/CTE Program has been awarded a $16 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/NINDS) to develop methods for diagnosing CTE during life.
Stern describes the project as “the biggest study of CTE in living subjects to date, in terms of the scope of the science, the number of participants, the breadth and depth and size of the group of investigators, and the amount of the grant.”
And because CTE shares certain features of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, says Stern, the study will benefit research beyond the field of CTE. “We expect what we learn from this project will have a tremendous impact on the understanding of those other diseases,” he notes.