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We are walking to help support
Click CeFAR to join our walk team The Autism Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh is one of six centers to receive funds for autism research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) created the Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) program to maximize coordination of NIH-sponsored autism research efforts. The ACE program is a trans-NIH effort supported by five NIH Institutes including: o the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(NICHD), o the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), o the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), o the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and o the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) The research program is under the direction of Nancy J. Minshew, MD., an internationally recognized expert in autism. Dr. Minshew is working with a team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh, Drs. Mark Strauss, Jana Iverson and Bernie Devlin; Carnegie Mellon University Drs. Marcel Just, Marlene Behrmann and Tom Mitchell; and Duquesne University Dr. Diane Williams, to search for the cognitive, neurological and genetic basis of autism.
This ACE center contributes to the National Database for Autism Research NDAR, a secure research data repository promoting data sharing and collaboration among ASD investigators.
The following video will give you a better understanding of the goals
for NDAR.
National Database for Autism Research (NDAR)
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