Ann-Arbor-based University of Michigan's Biosciences Initiative will invest $45 million in nine research projects by the end of 2018, including the development of the Michigan Concussion Center.
Here are four things to know:
1. The Michigan Concussion Center will build on the university's departments and research in sports analytics, biostatistics, biomechanics, biomarkers and imaging.
2. Steven Broglio, an athletic training professor and director of the School of Kinesiology NeuroTrauma Research Laboratory at the university, will serve as the principal investigator of the concussion center.
3. Mr. Broglio is also co-director of one of the largest concussion studies in the U.S., which is jointly funded by the NCAA and U.S. Department of Defense.
4. The proposal also calls for the recruitment of an additional epidemiologist, neuroscientist and a clinical interventionist.