Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) established at BU
The National Institutes of Health announced an award of $10 million to establish an Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) at Boston University, directed by Helen Tager-Flusberg. The BU ACE brings together leading neuroscientists from the University in collaboration with colleagues from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Northeastern University, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition to Tager-Flusberg, the principal investigators for ACE’s major projects are Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, a College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering and director of the BU Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, and Frank Guenther, professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Biomedical Engineering.