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Clinical trialNCT02798185CompletedObservational

The DIAGNOSE-CTE Research Project

SponsorBoston UniversityEnrollment240Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

This is a study to develop methods of diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) during life, as well as to examine possible risk factors for this neurodegenerative disease. One component of this study is the use of an investigational PET scan radio tracer to detect abnormal tau protein in the brain.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Boston University School of Medicine

    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Aug 2016
Primary completion
31 Oct 2023
Completion
15 Nov 2023
Last update posted
5 Dec 2023
Registered enrollment
240
Registry id
NCT02798185
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.