"Grief is a Spectrum Too" Wins Marvels of Media Documentary Short Award
- Hospice Foundation of America
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The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation is committed to understanding autism from a scientific perspective, increasing opportunities and services available to the autism community and educating the public about autism. In pursuit of its mission, the Foundation develops and provides grants to programs in research, clinical care, policy, advocacy and education.
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Adding Sensory Integration to Autism Assessments May Yield More Individualized Treatment
- Thomas Jefferson University
- Sensory Phenotypes in Autism: Making a Case for the Inclusion of Sensory Integration Functions
Website to Help Adults with Autism Cope with Grief Now Available
- Hospice Foundation of America
The Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine and the Autism Community
- Autism Around the Globe
Membrane fusion and immune evasion by the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant
- Science
Lurie Center's New Scientific Director Aims to Broaden Autism Research
- Massachusetts General Hospital Giving
UB researchers discover how a top-ranking risk gene for autism spectrum disorders causes seizures
- University at Buffalo News Center
- Deficiency of autism risk factor ASH1L in prefrontal cortex induces epigenetic aberrations and seizures
New collaboration between SFARI and Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation will generate hundreds of iPSC lines for autism research
- SFARI
Powerful drug discovery protocol for autism is accelerating the development of new treatments
- University at Buffalo News
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- May 23, 2023
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- August 6-11, 2023
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INSAR 2023 Annual Meeting
- May 3-6, 2023
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March 2023 Disability Task Force Meeting: Impact of the Workforce Crisis
- March 9, 2023
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Lurie Center For Autism
The Lurie Center for Autism is an integrated and multidisciplinary clinical, research, training and advocacy program of MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) dedicated to treating individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disorders.
Learn MoreLurie Institute for Disability Policy
The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management is dedicated to improving the lives of people on the autism spectrum, as well as people with other disabilities, across the lifespan through innovative social policies that foster inclusion into the mainstream of society.
Learn MoreAutism Around the Globe
Autism around the Globe is an interactive web-based project of the NLM Family Foundation which focuses on raising public awareness of how autism affects those in different parts of the world.
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