The National Institutes of Health will commit roughly $60 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
to support autism research and meet objectives set forth earlier this year by a federal advisory committee.
The Request for Applications is the largest funding opportunity for research on autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
to date and, combined with other ARRA initiatives, represents a surge in NIH’s commitment to finding the causes of and treatments for autism. Read more …