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Autism Research Center Awards $25K Pilot Grants to Three Interdisciplinary Research Projects
April 5, 2023 Several UNC School of Medicine faculty members were a part of three interdisciplinary research projects awarded $25,000 pilot grants through the UNC Autism Research Center. Last week, the Autism Research Center awarded…
Brian Boyd rethinks autism research
The most recent work by the interim director of FPG Institute and education professor focuses on Black families’ experiences. UNC School of Education, Monday, April 3rd, 2023 For more than 20 years, Brian Boyd has dedicated…
PCORI Awards UNC Researchers $4 million to Evaluate Mental Health Interventions for Autistic Adults
Brenna Maddox, Ph.D., at the UNC School of Medicine, will lead a study to help autistic adults, clinicians, and other key stakeholders select which mental health intervention is the best fit for individual patients. Brenna…
Piven Presents on Autism in Older Age to Special U.S. DHHS Interagency Committee
Joe Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, co-presented an overview of autism research in older populations before the US DHHS Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Joseph Piven, MD (photo by Chad David…
Anton Receives NIH High Risk-High Reward Grant
Eva Anton, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, received an NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award to study the underpinnings of brain malformations and neurodevelopmental disorders. Eva Anton,…
A Celebration of Scholarly Excellence
Four faculty members honored with distinguished professor and faculty scholar titles From left to right: Gary Stuck, Malbert Smith, Kin White, Nianbo Dong, Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, Ethan Hutt, Kara Hume, Brian Boyd, and Sharon Coop …
UNC Earns 4th Consecutive NIH Autism Centers of Excellence Grant
Joe Piven, MD, director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, is the principal investigator on a 5-year, $12-million NIH grant for the Brain and Behavior Study of ASD from Infancy through Adolescence, led by…
Rodríguez-Romaguera Awarded 2022 Young Investigator Award
Assistant Professor Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, PhD, has been awarded the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation 2022 Young Investigator Award. The Foundation’s grants provide scientists with up to $70,000 to advance research focused on mental illness. Jose…
“They are socialized differently”: People with autism more likely to identify as LGBTQ+
CARY, N.C. — Growing up Becca Alley always felt different from others. She just didn’t have a label for herself. “The Shania Twain song like ‘I feel like a woman’. I’m like ‘I don’t know what…
Visual System Brain Development Implicated in Infants who Develop Autism
This research, led by Jessica Girault, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, was conducted as part of the NIH-funded Infant Brain Imaging Study Network, which used MRI to document crucial differences in the visual…