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NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- NFL Charities has donated $1.5 million in grants to support sports-related medical research at 11 organizations to examine brain and knee injuries.
The grants are the latest of the $20 million the league's charitable foundation has donated since it was formed in 2000 for studies on mild traumatic brain injury, knee ligament injury prevention and heat stress risks.
In a release, the NFL said its four-member panel of medical experts said the 2009 grants include studies on knee bio-mechanics, artery blockage in retired players and stem cell usage for tendon repair.
"NFL Charities Medical Research Grants strive to make the game of football and all athletics safer by supporting a broad range of the best sports-related medical research proposals," said Dr. Kurt Spindler, head team physician at Vanderbilt and chairman of the NFL Medical Grant Committee. "The goal is to look at some of the many risk factors that exist not only for football players, but in all athletics."
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