Portraits of scientists who are making a mark on autism research.
The head of the Autism Phenome Project has deepened the pool of study participants and helped overhaul the culture of the MIND Institute.
A speech-language pathologist by training, Wetherby has spent more than four decades developing tools to help identify and treat autism early; now her work has taken on a more personal sense of urgency.
A renowned researcher’s eye for detail has given her a second career and a new following.
A careful clinician who prizes evidence, Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele is happy to embrace trial failures, as long as he learns from them.
Memories from Diering’s life trace the rising star’s scientific path from raising lizards as a child and later exploring home brewing to heading a lab that investigates memory, sleep disturbances and early development in animals with autism-linked mutations.
A young researcher faces down the skeptics.
Intentional interactions with autistic people led Sasson to refocus his research.
Autism’s “fearless” researcher takes on the big questions.
A researcher’s existential crisis led to a scientific breakthrough.
A theoretical neuroscientist, Kennedy uses a blend of computational modeling and real-world experiments to understand how brain activity shapes the behaviors of animals that model autism and other conditions.
A handful of scientists are committed to advancing research on the autism-related genetic conditions their own children have.
