MIT Receives $20 Million For Autism Research

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has received $20 million for autism research.  The MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research will use the funds to fund research autism spectrum disorder's genetic, biological, and neural roots. Research will be done by the newly created Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research (Tan-Yang Center) in collaboration with other schools, biotech companies and other local institutions.

The benefactors behind the funding are Hock E. Tan and Lisa Yang, who are parents of two children on the autism spectrum. Mr. Tan is a 1975 graduate of MIT and . . .