LAS VEGAS – UFC officials have committed to supporting Cleveland Clinic’s Professional Athletes Brain Health Study for another five years, upping their total financial commitment to the cause to $3 million, in hopes the research may help protect athletes’ from long-term brain trauma in the very near future. The promotion first partnered with the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in 2011 and has now committed $1 million to the effort during each of three consecutive five-year partnerships with the study, which is led by the Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Charles Bernick and Dr. Aaron Ritter. “We have been partnered with the Cleveland Clinic now for a decade, and we’re proud that we’ve already committed more than $2 million in funding the study,” UFC chief operating officer Lawrence Epstein told MMA Junkie
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UFC extends Cleveland Clinic support; study bears down on long-term brain health – MMA Junkie