SCSB supports and encourages collaborations between MIT-based researchers and others in the Boston area. Our Seed Grant funding program is available to any Boston-area autism researcher with a collaborator at MIT. The projects listed below are such collaborations. In addition, some of our Postdoctoral Fellows have chosen to undertake research under the secondary mentorship of PIs outside MIT. If you are looking for funding for your collaborative research project, please see our Funding page for further details.
Researchers in Partner Institutions
Stephen Carr, PhD, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Mark Daly, PhD, Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Targeted Project: Additional genetic risk factors for ASD with CNVs at 16p11.2
Matthew Goodwin, PhD, Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Gagan Joshi, MD, Harvard Medical School; Autism Spectrum Disorders Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Zsuzsana Kaldy, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Walter Kaufmann, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Seed Grant: Characterization of the role of the SHANK3 region in Autism Spectrum Disorder in Phelan-McDermid syndrome
Margaret Kjelgaard, PhD, CCC-SLP, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Massachusetts General Hospital; McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
- Seed Grant: Characterizing Sensory Hypersensitivities in Autism
- Seed Grant: Characterizing predictive abilities in autism
- Seed Grant: Interacting with dynamic objects in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Seed Grant: Matched Cohort of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Controls via Electronic Medical Records
- Seed Grant: Integrative Analysis of Novel Datasets to Discover Genetic Factors behind Autism
Eleni Maneta, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children’s Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Dara Manoach, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Steven McCarroll, PhD, Stanley Center Genetics Program, Broad Institute; Harvard Medical School
- Seed Grant: Understanding Cell Heterogeneity In Human Brain Using Droplet Microfluidics And Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Caroline Robertson, PhD, Harvard University
Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Seed Grant: Effects of mechanical environment on neuronal connectivity and function in autistic brain
Partner Institutions
![]() Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
![]() Massachusetts General Hospital |
![]() Harvard Medical School |
![]() Boston Children’s Hospital |
![]() MGH Institue of Health Professionals |
![]() University of Massachusetts Boston |
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