Amy Vaughan Van Hecke, Ph.D., a research scientist from Marquette University, has received a three-year Mentored Career Development Award from the Clinical & Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin to study how treatments for autism spectrum disorder affect the brain.
Van Hecke, an associate professor of psychology and director of the Marquette Autism Clinic, is the recipient of one of four grants awarded this year by the CTSI. The grant provides up to $140,000 per year in salary and benefits, as well as $25,000 to support her research.
In addition to the financial support, the grant also provides mentored training opportunities for junior faculty working in clinical and translational research who want to become dedicated, independently funded researchers.
Van Hecke’s mentors over the next three years include Edgar DeYoe, Ph.D., professor of cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin and director of the lab for neuroscience research at MCW; and Robert Scheidt, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Neuromotor Control Laboratory at Marquette.
