{"id":6639,"date":"2020-05-01T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2020-05-01T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:58:21","slug":"dr-mckee-receives-10m-nih-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/2020\/05\/01\/dr-mckee-receives-10m-nih-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. McKee Receives $10M NIH Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/neurology\/files\/2014\/09\/McKee_Ann-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"138\" class=\"wp-image-2420 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/files\/2014\/09\/McKee_Ann-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/files\/2014\/09\/McKee_Ann-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/files\/2014\/09\/McKee_Ann.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>Ann McKee, MD, Director of the BU CTE Center, has been awarded a five-year, $10 million U54 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and repetitive head impacts (RHI) on Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (AD),\u00a0<\/span><span>Alzheimer\u2019s disease-related dementias (ADRD) and\u00a0<\/span><span>chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and resulting clinical syndromes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. McKee, along with fellow BU investigators,\u00a0 will collaborate with investigators at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) to characterize brain donors with and without a history of RHI and\/or TBI and determine their neuropathological and clinical phenotypes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann McKee, MD, Director of the BU CTE Center, has been awarded a five-year, $10 million U54 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and repetitive head impacts (RHI) on Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (AD),\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s disease-related dementias (ADRD) and\u00a0chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and resulting clinical syndromes.\u00a0 Dr. McKee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":935,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2785],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6640,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}