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A US study that aims to shed more light on traumatic brain injuries has been awarded a grant of $3 million (£1.96 million).

Virginia Tech's Center for Injury Biomechanics has been awarded the funding by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for the project that will examine the factors involved in injuries sustained in car accidents.

Scientists at the institution will generate age and gender-specific models for prediction of injury in road crashes.

The researchers will investigate brain injury mechanisms and post-injury biomedical cascades, with the aim of establishing the nature and time course of the brain's response after head impact.

"Traumatic brain injury continues to be costly to society in both monetary and human terms," said Warren Hardy, director of Virginia Tech's Center for Injury Biomechanics.

He added: "The knowledge gained from this study will lead to a better understanding of injury tolerance and more effective approaches to injury prediction."

The Center for Injury Biomechanics is an interdisciplinary research facility that combines the Virginia Tech College of Engineering with the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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