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Committee hears testimony on $10 million TBI Treatment Accelerator proposal to speed therapeutics
Summary
Witnesses and experts told the House Workforce and Higher Education Committee that House Bill 91 would create a Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Accelerator (TBI TXL) to fund translational research; testimony described a $10,000,000 appropriation request and a match requirement to leverage private funds.
The House Workforce and Higher Education Committee heard testimony on House Bill 91, which sponsors and outside witnesses presented as a state-supported accelerator to speed development of therapeutics for traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Chad Cole, founder and executive director of the Brain Injury Research Foundation, described the TBI TXL model (two flagship initiatives called Precept and SynapX) and argued that insufficient funding has left TBI therapeutics underdeveloped. Cole said the foundation has operated with volunteers to…
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