Children’s Hospital Boston
To support research on the role of tuberous sclerosis proteins in axon development by John Merck Scholar Mustafa Sahin.
Grant Program Developmental Disabilities
Cornell University Weill Medical College
To conduct the 2009 summer institute on the biology of developmental disabilities.
Harvard University
To study functional analyses of a neural circuit regulating olfactory learning by John Merck Scholar Yun Zhang.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
To support Russell Ferland’s research into environment-genetic interactions and risk factors in autism.
University of California, San Francisco
To support research by John Merck Scholar finalist Susan Voglmaier on the developmental regulation of glutamate release in cells and circuits.
University of Massachusetts/Amherst
To research how selective attention deficits contribute to language processing disorders by John Merck Scholar Lisa Sanders.
University of Oregon
To support research by John Merck Scholar Finalist Michael Wehr on cortical balance of excitation and inhibition during development in autism.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
To support research by John Merck Scholar Finalist Sabrina Smith into the effects of neonatal stroke on visuospatial attention and numerical processing in children.
Vanderbilt University Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development
To run a model treatment program that targets the mental health needs of youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Cornell University Weill Medical College
To conduct the 2008 summer institute on the biology of development disabilities.