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Developmental Disabilities

2007 Grants

John Merck Scholars Program in the Biology
of Developmental Disabilities in Children

Brigham and Women's Hospital	$75,000
To recognize Howard Hiatt's longtime devotion to the John Merck Scholars Program, to support the Hiatt Global Health Residency.

Carnegie Mellon University	$75,000
To support research by John Merck Scholar Kevin Pelphrey on charting normal and abnormal development of the social brain. Second installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons	$75,000
To support the study the regulation of synaptic development by the neurexin-neuroligin complex by John Merck Scholar Peter Scheiffele, PhD. Fourth installment of a four-year, $235,000 grant.

Cornell University, Weill Medical College	$75,000
To conduct the 2007 summer institute on the biology of developmental disabilities.

Harvard Medical School	$15,000
John Merck Scholar Raymond Kelleher, MD, PhD To support research by John Merck Scholar Raymond Kelleher on neuronal activity-dependent protein synthesis in cognition and cognitive disorders. First installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

Harvard Medical School	$75,000
To support research on the functional and molecular analysis of the DSCAM family of neuronal immunoglobulin receptors by Dietmar Schmucker, PhD. Fourth installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$75,000
To support research by John Merck Scholar Rebecca Saxe on the neural basis of theory of mind in typical development and autism. First installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

Stanford University	$75,000
To support research by John Merck Scholar Anna Penn, PhD, on hunger's modulation of taste perception. First installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

University of California, Berkeley	$75,000
To support research on neural underpinnings of deficient cognitive controls in developmental disorders affecting frontostriatal circuitry by John Merck Scholar Silvia Bunge. Third installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

University of California, Berkeley	$75,000
To support research by John Merck Scholar Kristin Scott on the modulation of taste perception by hunger. Second installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

University of California, San Diego	$75,000
To support research by John Merck Scholar Terunaga Nakagawa to determine the molecular architecture and functional modulation of glutamate receptor complexes; key molecules in cognition, emotion and behavior. First installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

University of California, San Francisco	$75,000
To support research on the neural correlates of learning in the hippocampal-cortical circuit by John Merck Scholar Loren Frank. Fourth installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

University of Minnesota Medical School	$75,000
To support research on the role of neuronal excitability in vocal plasticity by John Merck Scholar Teresa Nick. Third installment of a four-year, $300,000 grant.

Family Support

National Association for the Dually Diagnosed	$15,000
To provide travel assistance for parents and caregivers to attend the annual conference; and to provide general support.

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