Research/Fellowship Program Support and Operational Support 

This grant was in staged fulfillment of a five-year NLM Family Foundation pledged Challenge Grant to National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR). NAAR’s mission was to fund, promote, and accelerate biomedical research and science-based approaches that seek to determine the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism spectrum disorders. NAAR provided grants to researchers for innovative, new pilot studies; mentored fellowships to recruit new researchers to focus on autism; and funded collaborative research programs with the potential to yield scientific advances in the field of autism.