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- Posted Tuesday November 18, 2014
ASU-UA rivalry football game is focus of fundraising for groundbreaking TGen-led concussion study
'Get Your Jersey On' encourages businesses and organizations to wear their favorite sports jersey to work or school, supporting TGen's investigations
Updated: Nov. 24, 2014
Participating in the Nov. 26 Get Your Jersey On day
are the Phoenix and Tucson offices of CBRE, a nationwide commercial
real estate firm, and HealthSouth Scottsdale Rehabilitation
Hospital.
PHOENIX, Ariz. - Nov. 18, 2014 - In
anticipation of Arizona's biggest rivalry football game of the
year, the Translational Genomics Research Institute invites
businesses, schools and other organizations throughout the state to
join TGen's "Get Your Jersey On" campaign for concussion
research.
TGen encourages organizations to allow their employees to wear
their favorite sports jersey or t-shirt to work or school on Nov.
26 - the day before Thanksgiving - in anticipation of the 88th Duel
in the Desert, pitting the Arizona State University Sun Devils
against the University of Arizona Wildcats on Nov. 28 in Tucson.
Friday's game could decide which team plays for the PAC-12
Championship.
TGen encourages participants to make small donations of $10
towards TGen's groundbreaking concussion research, which consists
of ASU student-athletes voluntarily wearing sensors in their
helmets to measure the number, location, duration, direction and
force of impacts during practices and games.
These measurements, combined with biological tests, could result
in the discovery of a biomarker - a measurable change in the
athlete's genetic makeup - that would objectively indicate when a
player is too hurt to take the field, or when they are fit enough
to re-enter the game.
TGen's multi-year study is in conjunction with Riddell - the industry leader in football
helmet technology and innovation - Barrow Neurological Institute
and A.T. Still University. The study could help protect the health
of student athletes by replacing subjective examinations players
currently undergo on the sidelines after a serious hit with a
definitive genomics-based test.
Hundreds of Chandler's Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary School
students and teachers and Arizona employees of Bank of America
Merrill Lynch already have participated in Get Your Jersey On
events earlier this fall. Other Get Your Jersey On events are
anticipated surrounding the inaugural NCAA college football
playoffs in late December and early January, as well as the Jan. 25
NFL Pro Bowl and Feb. 1 Super Bowl, both being played at University
of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.
"It is our hope that the enthusiasm sports fans have for the
ASU-UA rivalry game will translate into support for this vitally
important TGen-led study of concussions," said Dean Ballard, TGen
Foundation Assistant Director of Development. "We welcome
additional businesses and organizations to Get Their Jersey On and
turn their love of sports into a way to help protect the athletes
they admire."
If you would like your organization to participate in Get Your
Jersey On, contact Ballard at [email protected], or
602-343-8543.
Individuals may donate at: https://www.tgenfoundation.org/netcommunity/donate.
Click drop down box to: Concussion Research.
ASU (9-2) and UA (9-2) annually vie for the coveted Territorial
Cup, the nation's oldest rivalry trophy in college football. It
dates to 1899 - 13 years before Arizona became a state - when
Arizona's two largest institutions of higher learning first met on
the gridiron. The Wildcats lead the series 47-39, with one tie.
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About TGen
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is a Phoenix,
Arizona-based non-profit organization dedicated to conducting
groundbreaking research with life changing results. TGen is focused
on helping patients with cancer, neurological disorders and
diabetes, through cutting edge translational research (the process
of rapidly moving research towards patient benefit). TGen
physicians and scientists work to unravel the genetic components of
both common and rare complex diseases in adults and children.
Working with collaborators in the scientific and medical
communities literally worldwide, TGen makes a substantial
contribution to help our patients through efficiency and
effectiveness of the translational process. For more information,
visit:www.tgen.org.
Press Contact:
Steve Yozwiak
TGen Senior Science Writer
602-343-8704
[email protected]
