Advisory Boards:

Scientific Advisory Board
Treatment Advisory Board
Innovative Technology Advisory Board

AGRE Steering Committee
ATN Steering Committee
ATP Executive Committee
CTN Steering Committee

Scientific and medical experts meet several times a year to review research proposals for Autism Speaks.

David Amaral, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. Institute

George Anderson, Ph.D.
Yale Child Center, Yale University

David S. Baskin, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Methodist Neurological Institute

Margaret Bauman, M.D.
LADDERS, Massachusetts General Hospital

Ralph Bradshaw, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine

Melissa Down Begg, Sc.D.
Columbia University

W. Ted Brown, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.M.G.
Jervis Clinic, N.Y.S. Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities

Verne S. Caviness, Jr., M.D., D. Phil.
Massachusetts General Hospital

Diane Chugani, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

Joseph T. Coyle, M.D.
Harvard Medical School

Tom Curran, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Stephen R. Dager, M.D.
University of Washington

Mony J. de Leon, Ed.D.
New York University Medical Center

Martha Bridge Denckla, M.D.
Kennedy Krieger Institute

Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, M.D.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Salvatore J. Enna, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center

Michael D. Gershon, M.D.
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Dan Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.
Reed Neurological Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Daniel Goldowitz, Ph.D.
UT Research Center of Excellence in Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

William T. Greenough, Ph.D.
Beckman Institute, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James F. Gusella, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School

Susan L. Hyman, M.D.
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Barry Jacobs, Ph.D.
Princeton University

Pat Levitt, Ph.D.
John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University

Kathleen A. Mahon, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

John Mazziotta, M.D., Ph.D.
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Nancy J. Minshew, M.D.
NICHD Collaborative Program of Excellence in Autism (CPEA), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Eric J. Nestler, MD, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwester Medical Center at Dallas

Richard S. Nowakowski, Ph.D.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Paul Patterson, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology

Pasko Rakic, MD, Sc.D.
Yale University Medical School

John Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco

Robert Schultz, Ph.D.
Yale University Child Study Center

Sangram S. Sisodia, Ph.D.
The Center for Molecular Neurobiology, The University of Chicago

Matthew State, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine

Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Peter Whybrow, M.D.
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA

James T. Winslow, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health

Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, M.D.
Centers for Disease Control