Texas Health Institutions to collaborate on TBI research
The Department of Defense has awarded a group of Texas medical institutions known as Mission Connect a $33 million grant to further traumatic brain injury research. The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston will lead the five-year research project. Rice University, the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical Branch will also be involved. Each institution will conduct its own research project. The grant will offer them all a chance to collaborate with each other and share ideas. The goal is to standardize traumatic brain injury models, improve diagnosis techniques and develop new strategies for soldiers returning after service abroad. “The era of one scientist doing something by himself is over,” said Dr. Alex Valadka, a neurosurgeon for the UT Health Science Center. “This consortium involves everyone from rehab doctors, psychologists, radiologists to researchers in different areas ranging from nanotechnology to stem cell research.”
