You would have thought the Department of Defense would be funding millions of $ for further research TBI Research Project Funding: Listed below are TBI grants and contracts awarded to the Roskamp Institute (Years/Research Title/Grantor): 2013-2018 Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium. (Crawford) Joint Veterans Affairs / Department of Defense 2010 – 2014 Identification and Validation of Novel Therapeutic Targets for Traumatic Brain Injury. (Crawford) Department of Defense 2013 – 2015 Brain and Plasma Molecular Characterization of the Pathogenic TBI-AD Interrelationship in Mouse Models. (Crawford) Department of Defense 2012 – 2015 Proteomic Identification of Plasma TBI Biomarkers. (Crawford) Veterans Affairs The TBI Research Program is also supported by the Roskamp Foundation.