By donating about an hour of their time, current and former NFL players in the Phoenix area have the opportunity on Monday to help researchers diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the living.
Exosome Sciences, a subsidiary of Aethlon Medical, Inc., in San Diego, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in downtown Phoenix are collaborating on the project. They hope to convince about 200 past and present football players, mostly with NFL ties, to participate in the hopes of helping those who have CTE now or might in the future.
The study’s second “collection date” is scheduled for Monday, June 11, from 7 a.