Vanderbilt Kennedy Center announces Discovery and Strategic Priorities grants

May 19, 2005 Vanderbilt Kennedy Center receives gift from the Dan Marino Foundation

Reaching out to children with autism and their families is what the Dan Marino Foundation is all about. The foundation recently expanded its impact through a gift of $100,000 to the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. The gift, the first major donation the foundation has made outside of its home base of South Florida, will create Dan Marino Foundation Fellowships and Dan Marino Foundation Discovery Grants and will support the center‘s outreach programs.

By VUMC News and Communications

October 18, 2012 Dollar General gift aids youth literacy clinic By VUMC News and Communications

February 2, 2017 Gene mutation discovery may hold autism clues: study

Researchers at Vanderbilt have identified what may be a genetic “smoking gun” for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) — a mutation in the gene for the critical neuronal protein CaMKII.

By Bill Snyder