International Badass Activists
Welcome to the Divergent Revolution.
Screenshot of NIH News regarding the Autism Summit Conference in November 2003. Full text below. Autism Summit Conference A national conference focusing on the Federal government's role in biomedical autism research, early screening and diagnosis, and improving access to autism services will be held November 19-20, 2003, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. …
• There are 1.77 million cases of autism in the U.S.• A new case of autism is diagnosed nearly every 20 minutes• There are 24,000 new cases diagnosed in the U.S. per year• 1 in 166 children are diagnosed with autism• The economic impact of autism is more than $90 billion and expected to more than double in the next decade• Autism …
Scientific Advisory Board Scientific and medical experts meet several times a year to review research proposals for Autism Speaks. David Amaral, Ph.D.University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. InstituteGeorge Anderson, Ph.D.Yale Child Center, Yale University David S. Baskin, M.D., F.A.C.S.Methodist Neurological Institute Margaret Bauman, M.D.LADDERS, Massachusetts General Hospital Ralph Bradshaw, Ph.D.University of California, Irvine Melissa Down Begg, …
Autism Speaks Receives More-Than-Expected Number of Research Proposals Dana Foundation to Assist in Administering Grant Requests Autism Speaks has received a higher-than-expected 58 applications for a new grant program it initiated to target established scientists at leading medical and research institutions. The Dana Foundation is assisting in the administration of this first round of grants. …
32f362f6-1510-4140-aabc-715d563d1da6Download NAAR Autism Genome Project: Fact Sheet A Public/Private Research Partnership Uniting the World’s Leading Autism Researchers to Locate the Genes Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders Who: The project is a partnership between the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) and four institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH): the National Institute of Mental …
Grants Funded by Cure Autism Now - 2001 Early detection of autism Jan Buitelaar, M.D., Ph.D., University Medical Center Utrecht (Pilot Research) For both clinical and research reasons it is important to detect children with typical autism and with the broader phenotype of autism spectrum disorders at an age as early as possible. We have …
Publications: 2003 In addition to leveraging their AS/CAN/NAAR-funded studies to earn larger autism research grants from the National Institutes of Health and other sources, researchers funded by AS/CAN/NAAR have experienced significant success publishing their studies in numerous scientific journals and books. These publications play a key role in enhancing the scientific community's understanding of autism …
