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"Conflict of interest Songbai Ji is a developer of the Worcester Head Injury Model. Mazdak Ghajari is a developer of the Imperial College Model of Brain Injury. Haojie Mao is a developer of the GHBMC model. Reuben H Kraft has a financial interest in BrainSim Technologies Inc., a company which could potentially benefit from the results of this research. This interest has been reviewed by Penn State University in accordance with its Individual Conflict of Interest policy for the purpose of maintaining the objectivity and integrity in research and is being actively managed. Matthew B Panzer is a developer of the brain models at University of Virginia. Remy Willinger is a developer of the Strasbourg University FE Head Model. Michael D Gilchrist is a developer of the University College Dublin brain trauma model. Svein Kleiven is a developer of the KTH head model. Joel D. Stitzel is member of Elemance, LLC which licenses GHBMC models of the human body. Joel D. Stitzel is a developer of the Atlas Brain Model at Wake Forest University."

"Support for the CHAMP consensus conference was obtained from the National Football League and Football Research Inc. SJ is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award Number 2114697. RHK is supported by the NSF under Award Number 1846059. MH is supported by the NSF under award number 2138719. JS is supported by the NIH under Awards R01NS094410 and R01NS082453. Any opinions, findings and conclusions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health."