Autism Research Projects
The MRC currently funds 11 research projects investigating the biological and psychological causes and effects of autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
MRC-funded autism research projects | |||
Grant holder |
University/institute |
Project title |
Award |
Professor S Baron-Cohen |
University of Cambridge |
Autistic traits, autism spectrum conditions and foetal testosterone |
£1,187k |
Professor D Bowler |
City University, London |
Integration of complex spatial and temporal elements of episodic memory in adults with Asperger’s syndrome |
£191k |
Professor J Green |
University of Manchester |
Pre-school Autism Communication trial (PACT) |
£1,256k |
Dr F Happé |
Institute of Psychiatry, London |
A population-based twin-study of autism spectrum disorders |
£570k |
Professor B Hood |
University of Bristol |
Developing Dynamic Gaze Processing |
£435k |
Professor M H Johnson |
Birkbeck College |
Functional Brain Development in Human Infants: Perceiving the Social and Physical World |
£1,703k |
Professor M H Johnson |
Birkbeck College |
Typical and Atypical Human Functional Brain Development Over the First Four Years |
£5k |
Professor A Monaco |
University of Oxford |
The Autism Genome Project |
£956k |
Professor D Murphy |
Institute of Psychiatry, London |
Brain anatomy in autism; a multi-centre study |
£700k |
Dr M F Nolan |
University of Edinburgh |
Roles of neuronal integrative mechanisms in olivocerebellar networks and motor behaviour |
£315k |
Dr A Roberts |
University of Cambridge |
Positive affective states: a behavioural, autonomic and neural analysis. |
£850k |
Completed projects (completing from 2000/01 onwards) | |||
Grant holder |
University/ institute |
Project title |
Award |
Professor A Bailey |
Institute of Psychiatry, London |
Collaborative Molecular Genetic Study of Autism |
£967k |
Professor A Bailey |
University of Oxford |
Collaborative Molecular Genetic Study of Autism (Oxford Centre) |
£708k |
Professor A Bailey |
Institute of Psychiatry, London |
A morphometric study of the Neuropathology of Autism |
£138k |
Professor S Baron-Cohen |
Cambridge |
The development of social intelligence in children with and without high functioning autism: Cognitive and fMRI investigations |
£770k |
Professor P Bolton |
Institute of Psychiatry, London |
The effect of additional copies of chromosome 15q11-q13 with special reference to the autistic spectrum disorders. |
£586k |
Professor T Charman |
Institute of Child Health, London |
Characterising the cognitive phenotype of autism spectrum disorders |
£381k |
Professor U Frith |
University College London |
Cognitive Deficits in Developmental Disorders. |
£1,292k |
Professor U Frith |
University College London |
Autism and Social Cognition |
£508k |
Professor J Golding |
University of Bristol |
The aetiology of traits contributing to autism and the autistic spectrum disorders |
£408k |
Professor A Hall |
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Med |
A case control study of autism in general practice |
£364k |
Dr F Happé |
Institute of Psychiatry, London |
Local-global processing and cognitive style in autism and normal development; cognitive and brain bases |
£246k |
Professor P Jacobs |
University of Cambridge |
The effects of duplications and triplications of chromosome 15q11-q13 with special reference to autism |
£595k |
Dr K Nation |
University of Oxford |
Pathfinder (PF336): Verbal and nonverbal communication in autism |
£151k |
Dr K Plaisted |
University of Cambridge |
An Investigation of the Mechanisms Underlying the Deficits in Contextual Processing in Autism |
£222k |
Contact: Dr Gavin Malloch
Telephone: 020 7670 5244
Email: gavin.malloch@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk