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NEWS RELEASES
HOUSTON – (Feb. 5, 2009) -
Dr. Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, assistant professor of pediatrics at
Baylor College of Medicine and child neurologist in the Division of
Child Neurology at Texas Children’s Hospital, has been honored with
the
McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award.
The funds, a total of $300,000 over a three-year period, will
support her research on the metabolomics of the autistic brain.
“The support from the McKnight Foundation will enable me to
vigorously pursue my autism research,” Maletic-Savatic said.
Her goal is to form a multidisciplinary core program with a common
goal of finding biomarkers of autism to help diagnose the disorder
early and find clues that might help treatment of the affected
children.
“Autism is a very complex disorder and interdisciplinary research
can lead to substantial results that will ultimately help the
patients,” Maletic-Savatic said. “The environment here, at Baylor
College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, is ideal to
accomplish such a goal, as so many outstanding physicians and
scientists are concentrated so close to each other.”
The McKnight Foundation supports the McKnight Neuroscience of Brain
Disorders Award, created in 2000 to encourage innovative efforts to
solve the problems of neurological and psychiatric diseases.
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