The transformational gift seeks to reduce the morbidity and mortality of suicide in patients seen across the UNC Health system and beyond.
The research, led by Jessica Girault at the UNC School of Medicine, was conducted as part of the NIH-funded Infant Brain Imaging Study Network, which used MRI to document crucial differences in the visual processing system in the brains of infants who went on to develop autism.
Research led by Drs. Mark Shen, Heather Hazlett and Joseph Piven from UNC-Chapel Hill is the first to demonstrate overgrowth of the amygdala in the first year of life, before babies show most of the behavioral symptoms that later consolidate into a diagnosis of autism.
The record-setting gift supports the development of innovative cancer treatments, eradicating health disparities.