In 1997, NAAR awarded its first research grants, committing approximately $150,000 to fund five pilot studies in autism research taking place in throughout the United States.
Barry Gordon, M.D.,
Ph.D.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore,
MD
"Training of Speech Perception and Speech Comprehension
in Autistic Children: A Combined Behavioral-Neurophysiological Pilot
Study."
Award Amount: $30,000
Margaret A.
Pericak-Vance, Ph.D.
Duke University Center for Human Genetics,
Durham, NC
"Genetic Studies in Autistic
Disorders"
Award Amount: $29,120
W. Ian Lipkin,
M.D.
University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA
"Bornavirus Infection and Autism Pathogeneses"
Award Amount: $30,000
Rebecca Landa, Ph.D.
The
Kennedy-Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD
"Core Deficits of
Autism: Evidence from Infant Siblings of Autistic Probands"
Award Amount: $29,700
Pauline A. Filipek, M.D.
University
of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA
"Autism: A Model of
Anomalous Neural Systems Development"
Award Amount:
$29,997
