Autism Research Database - Principal Investigator Project Details

Project Element	Element Description
Project Title Project Title	CRC Tier 2
Principal Investigator Principal Investigator	Anagnostou, Evdokia
Description Description	Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by social communication difficulties and repetitive behaviors/interests. It affects 1 in 88 children. Although there is emerging information on the biological differences leading to ASD, there are still no medicines approved for its core symptoms. This chair will focus on translating basic science findings into innovative therapies, by 1) improving clinical trials capacity in ASD in Canada, 2) selecting new molecular targets for therapies and testing new compounds, and 3) classifying genes, brain images and behaviour in ways that predict treatment response and thus personalize treatment for each child and youth with ASD.
Funder Funder	Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Funding Country Funding Country	Canada
Fiscal Year Funding Fiscal Year Funding	79872
Current Award Period Current Award Period	2014-2019
Strategic Plan Question Strategic Plan Question	Question 4: Which Treatments and Interventions Will Help?
Funder’s Project Link Funder’s Project Link	No URL available.
Institution Institution	University of Toronto
Institute Location Institute Location	Canada
Project Number Project Number	334313
Government or Private Government or Private	Government
History/Related Projects History/Related Projects	N/A