Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Simons Foundation Among Backers of $28 Million Autism Treatment Study
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine will lead a four-year, $28 million national study that could help improve the way children with autism spectrum disorders are treated.
The Yale team will collect data in Connecticut from preschoolers and school-aged children affected by autism spectrum disorders. The data then will be evaluated along with data taken from four other locations: Duke University, Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Washington.
The study was announced earlier this month as part of a collaboration among the National Institute of Mental Health, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. The study is also supported by a Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health....