$6 million Grant to Expand search for Autism Gene

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$6 Million Grant to Expand Search for Autism Genes

March 11, 2002 Contact: : Jules Asher

NIMH Press Office

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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) today awarded the first

installment of an expected $6 million grant over 5 years to researchers at

the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for major expansion of a

collaborative effort to identify autism genes. <A

HREF= " http://www.neuroscience.ucla.edu/faculty-page.asp?key=945 " >

Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.</A>,

and colleagues at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute will direct the project, in

partnership with the citizens group Cure Autism Now (CAN), to add 300 more

families to its <A HREF= " http://www.familyagre.org/ " >Autism Genetic Resource

Exchange (AGRE)</A> gene

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/events/autismgrant.cfm