 In December 1991, Luttge came across an excerpt from an obscure newsletter, Commerce Business Daily, announcing a call for proposals for a competitive Department of Defense (DoD) grant to build a major national brain and spinal cord research center.Around the same time, UF — through its Health Science Center, College of Medicine and teaching hospital, Shands at UF — made a strategic decision to create a unique campus-wide program to enhance the multidisciplinary research, clinical care and educational skills of the entire university.This program was named the University of Florida Brain Institute (UFBI).