Reaching beyond MIT

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

• Seed Grant: Transcriptome- and proteome-wide screen of UBE3A targets in an isogenic human stem cell model of Angelman syndrome

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

• Seed Grant: Examining interpersonal biobehavioral synchrony as a measure of social reciprocity and emotion regulation in parent-child dyads with and without autism using an interactive smart toy platform

Gagan Joshi, MD, Harvard Medical School; Autism Spectrum Disorders Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

• Seed Grant: Neural Correlates of ADHD in Adolescents with ASD

Zsuzsana Kaldy, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• Seed Grant: The early development of attentional mechanisms in ASD

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

• Seed Grant: Quantification of Learning Algorithm Performance to Inputs of Variable Complexity: Implications for Emotional Intelligence in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Dara Manoach, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

• Seed Grant: Development of accelerated diffusion and functional MRI scans with real-time motion tracking for children with autism

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

• Seed Grant: Advancing a Biomarker of Reduced GABAergic Neurotransmission in Autism

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
Northeastern University