Ann McKee Is on a Quest to Save Humanity’s Brains

Dr. Ann McKee remembers the first time she saw a case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. She’d been staring down at the brain of deceased boxer Paul Pender, and the damage she saw had caught her off guard: “I was looking at the boxer’s brain, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” she says. “I set out to find more cases of it, but there weren’t many boxers who were donating their brains.”

She was in a unique position to search for brains, at least. Dr. McKee, a board-certified neuropathologist and neurologist, studies degenerative brain diseases.

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