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Clare Harrop, Dara Chan, and Laura Klinger Awarded Grant to Study Social Connections and Suicidal Thoughts in Older Autistic Adults
February 7, 2024 Clare Harrop, PhD, Dara Chan, ScD, CRC, and Laura Klinger, PhD, are recipients of a National Institute of Mental Health (R21) grant, allowing them to study the associations between social connections and suicidal thoughts and…
Piven to Step Down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
December 13, 2023 Joseph Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, has served as founding editor-in-chief of Journal for Neurodevelopmental Disorders since 2009, when the journal began publishing as part of the…
Researchers Reveal Low-Quality Studies of Autism Early Interventions Dominate the Field
November 20, 2023 A new meta-analysis led by Micheal Sandbank, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the UNC School of Medicine, found that the field of autism needs more high-quality…
Katie Baldwin Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to Study Brain White Matter
Katie Baldwin Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to Study Brain White Matter October 3, 2023 Katie Baldwin, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology and physiology in the UNC School of Medicine, received $1.5 million…
Understanding the benefits of inclusive fitness
FPG Faculty Fellows seek to understand the benefits of inclusive fitness August 22, 2023 With a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH), FPG Faculty Fellows Kara Hume, Ph.D., Brianne Tomaszewski, Ph.D., will lead…
Creating new momentum in autism research
The Black Empowerment in Autism Network gathered to discuss ways to improve autism research for minoritized populations and develop a mentorship collective for up-and-coming researchers of color. On Friday, June 9, Brian Boyd, Ph.D., William…
Rooted: Brian Boyd
Brian Boyd has been contributing to research at Carolina for 13 years. Photo by Megan Mendenhall Brian Boyd has worked at UNC-Chapel Hill for 13 years in a variety of roles, most recently as the…
Putnam Receives Autism Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Doctoral student Orla Putnam’s research will examine prosody, which is the rhythm, tone, and pattern used during spoken language in males and females with and without autism, and will compare prosody to assessments of social…
Bench to bedside, Carolina leads study of Angelman syndrome
Research on the one defective gene that causes the rare autism-related disorder could lead to broader breakthroughs. Dr. Liz Jalazo, seen here in a family photo, is at the heart of Carolina’s concentrated research…
Dr. Jason Stein Awarded New R01 from NIMH
Dr. Jason Stein Awarded New R01 from NIMH Jason Stein, PhD Associate Professor Jason Stein, PhD (Associate Professor, Genetics and Neuroscience Center), has been awarded a new R01 grant from the National Institutes of Mental…