UC Davis MIND Institute gets $12M grant

UC Davis MIND Institute gets $12M grant
Sacramento Business Journal
by Michael Shaw Staff writer

The University of California Davis MIND Institute will receive $12 million in stimulus funds to study autism and other disorders, the university announced Monday.

The funding, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will be used over the next two years to investigate childhood risks of autism due to genetics and the environment, an autism phenome project that is one of the nation’s largest studies of the disorder, and several other studies.

“The MIND Institute is fortunate to have such a talented group of scientists who will make a real difference in our understanding the causes and in developing effective treatments for a number of neurodevelopmental disorders,” Robert Hales, the institute’s interim director and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, said in a news release.

The institute was founded in 1998 as an interdisciplinary research center to study neurodevelopmental disorders.