NEWS & ARTICLES
September 2007 |
Letter from Hilary Gilfoy, Autism Speaks' UK Chief Executive to The Times - (opens a pop-up window)
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September 2007 |
Researchers at the University of Texas' have genetically engineered mice with a genetic mutation that has been found in some people with autism. This may offer researchers a new means for studying how specific defects in brain development might lead to autism. Read more. |
August 2007 |
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism: Policy into Practice - (opens a pdf) |
28 August 2007 |
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27 August 2007 |
Hunting the Gene - The Times Online Parents and scientists are hoping that a new detailed analysis based on human genome will bring a big breakthrough within a year. |
August 2007 |
Grandparent Power - Oxford Times Don't underestimate what you have to offer - (opens a pdf) |
13 July 2007 |
The £50 million giveaway - SAGA
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23 May 2007 |
House of Commons reception speech Dame Stephanie Shirley's opening speech at the Autism Speaks activity update. |
16 April 2007 |
Autism: The battle to raise funds - Mature Times Dame Stephanie Shirley's interview on her working life and her passion for raising money for autism research. |
18 February 2007 |
Preliminary Results of the Autism Genome Project Autism Speaks, together with an international consortium of researchers and participating families, today announced the publication of the preliminary results from the largest-ever autism genome scan in Nature Genetics, one of the world's most prestigious research publications. To read more, please click here. |
March 2006 |
Cooksey Review of Health Research In his budget speech in March 2006 Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced a single, ring-fenced budget of at least £1billion to support the health research funded by the Medical Research Council and the NHS. He then asked Sir David Cooksey to conduct a consultation and review on how best to organise this single research fund. Medical research charities were one of a number of groups invited to contribute to the review. To see Autism Speaks response, in which we call for greater priority to be given to research into conditions such as autism that carry a large economic and social as well as healthcare burden, click here. The review will feed in to the 2006 pre-budget report, published in November. |
Dame Stephanie Shirley, a war refugee who against the odds built up an internationally successful technology group, has given a huge chunk of her fortune to fund education and research into autism, which scarred the short life of her son.