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Wake Forest, Winston-Salem State Receive Grant To Continue Concussion Research

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Two Triad universities have received a grant to continue participating in the largest-ever study of sports-related concussions.

The grant is roughly $500,000, and will allow Winston-Salem State University and Wake Forest University to continue research on the effects of concussions on student-athletes.

They're among 30 such schools participating in the study. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is also part of the team.

Baptist has already been directing baseline studies for concussions on athletes from Wake Forest and WSSU.

The researchers are also now testing to see if concussions might affect an athlete's DNA.

Since 2014, the consortium that originated this research has collected data from about 40,000 college athletes.

Winston-Salem State is the only historically black university to be a part of the study.

Sean Bueter joined WFDD in August 2015 as a reporter covering issues across the Piedmont Triad and beyond.Previously, Sean was a reporter, host and news director at WBOI in Fort Wayne, Ind., just a few hours from where he grew up. He also sorted Steve Inskeep's mail as an intern at NPR in Washington, D.C.Sean has experience on a variety of beats, including race, wealth and poverty, economic development, and more. His work has appeared on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and APM's Marketplace.In his spare time, Sean plays tennis (reasonably well), golf (reasonably poorly), and scours local haunts for pinball machines to conquer.

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