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title: "UNITE – Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy Brain Bank (BU-CTE Center)"
id: "8532"
type: "cohort"
slug: "understanding-neurologic-injury-and-traumatic-encephalopathy-brain-bank-bu-cte-center"
published_at: "2025-10-27T17:47:30+00:00"
modified_at: "2025-10-29T18:49:25+00:00"
url: "https://dss.niagads.org/cohorts/understanding-neurologic-injury-and-traumatic-encephalopathy-brain-bank-bu-cte-center/"
markdown_url: "https://dss.niagads.org/cohorts/understanding-neurologic-injury-and-traumatic-encephalopathy-brain-bank-bu-cte-center.md"
excerpt: "Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) Brain Bank is the largest tissue repository in the world focused on traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). It collects central nervous system tissue from donors with CTE and a history..."
taxonomy_cohort_countries:
  - "United States of America"
---

Website:

[https://www.bu.edu/cte/brain-donation-registry/brain-bank/](https://www.bu.edu/cte/brain-donation-registry/brain-bank/)

## Description

Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) Brain Bank is the largest tissue repository in the world focused on traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). It collects central nervous system tissue from donors with CTE and a history of repetitive head impacts, including contact sport athletes and military personnel. The UNITE Brain Bank is located at the Boston University CTE Center in Boston, Massachusetts. It was formerly the “VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank”.

The mission of the UNITE Brain Bank is to drive high-impact, innovative research on CTE and to improve the understanding of the long-term consequences of repetitive head impacts, with the goal of advancing diagnosis, treatment, and care for individuals affected by traumatic brain injury and CTE.

## Related Datasets

- [NG00183 – Diverse somatic genomic alterations in single neurons in chronic traumatic encephalopathy](https://dss.niagads.org/datasets/ng00183/) This study characterized somatic mutations in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and performed whole-genome sequencing of single neurons isolated from prefrontal cortex (PFC) of postmortem human brain of individuals with CTE,… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/datasets/ng00183/)

## Related Studies

- [sa000075 - Diverse somatic genomic alterations in single neurons in chronic traumatic encephalopathy](https://dss.niagads.org/studies/sa000075/) This study characterized somatic mutations in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and performed whole-genome sequencing of single neurons isolated from prefrontal cortex (PFC) of postmortem human brain of individuals with CTE,… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/studies/sa000075/)

## Related Sample Sets

- [snd10128 - Diverse somatic genomic alterations in single neurons in chronic traumatic encephalopathy](https://dss.niagads.org/sample-sets/snd10128/) This study characterized somatic mutations in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and performed whole-genome sequencing of single neurons isolated from prefrontal cortex (PFC) of postmortem human brain of individuals with CTE,… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/sample-sets/snd10128/)

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