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Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium (CENC)

The Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium (CENC) is a coordinated, multicenter collaboration linking basic science, translational, and clinical neuroscience researchers from the VA, military, and academia to effectively address the long-term effects of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and its diagnosis and treatment.

The Consortium brings together a nationwide group of researchers who have extensive track records of internal and external collaborations, demonstrated productivity in knowledge translation and dissemination, and the proven ability to recruit and follow up with research subjects.

https://cenc.rti.org/

Roskamp is a Consortium Member

Roskamp Institute, Sarasota

Fiona Crawford, Ph.D.

Dr. Crawford is a neuroscientist with 25 years of experience in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, with a particular focus on Traumatic Brain Injury, Alzheimer’s Disease and Gulf War Illness. She is the President of the Roskamp Institute in Sarasota, Florida and a Merit funded researcher at the James A Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Crawford directs all military research programs at the Roskamp Institute and her work encompasses genetic and biomarker research in clinical populations, and development and characterization of laboratory models, using neurobehavioral, neuropathological and biochemical approaches. All of her work has an end goal of clinical applications, therefore she collaborates extensively with researchers who work with the patient populations she seeks to treat, both in the Roskamp Institute clinic, and at the Tampa VA and other military and VA facilities around the country. At the Tampa VA she collaborates with Drs. Richardson, Vanderploeg and Belanger on translation of preclinical TBI research to human populations, while with Dr. Binder at Northwestern University she is collaborating on characterization of Tau pathogenesis in mouse models. Dr. Crawford recently extended the Roskamp military research program to include development of mouse models of PTSD. She has been consistently funded by NIH, the VA and the Department of Defense for her work, including projects on drug and biomarker discovery and translation from mouse to human populations.

https://cenc.rti.org/About/Participating-Organizations