The National Institutes of Health Provides Funding For Two Autism Centers Of Excellence
Circle Connections: Awards & Accreditations The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $5.3 million in initial one-year funding to two recipients of the Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) program: Sally J. Rogers, Ph.D., University of California, Davis MIND Institute; and Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. With these awards, eleven ACE centers around the country are now being funded for up to five years. The program was created in 2007 to launch an intense and coordinated research effort aimed at identifying the causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and finding new treatments . . .