Jun 24, 2026 · 31 min · 9 segments
*Sensitive Content Notice: This episode discusses brain donation and postmortem tissue research.* Our goal at PMSF is to provide clear, transparent information so families can better understand all…
Lilliam AcostaGuestLaurenHost
And I just also want to say, Lauren, that on behalf of our program, and I'm sure Alicia feels the same way, we are just very grateful to you and to the Phelan McDermott community for really their continued support of our program in this research.
And so we try to make sure that we want to encourage families to learn as much as possible at our program if that's something that they want to do.
So Autism Brained, as you mentioned in the introduction, was established in 2014 and is funded by the Simons Foundation.
And the goal is to build a bank of donated post-mortem brain tissue to facilitate research into the biological causes of autism and related conditions like philomectomy.
And as a program and as a research program, and as we're doing right now, we work very closely with families, with researchers, with our partners, providers, to really provide a greater knowledge of this type of research and to ensure the most compassionate donation process for families during a very difficult time.
And I just also want to say, Lauren, that on behalf of our program, and I'm sure Alicia feels the same way, we are just very grateful to you and to the Phelan McDermott community for really their continued support of our program in this research.
And so we try to make sure that we want to encourage families to learn as much as possible at our program if that's something that they want to do.
So Autism Brained, as you mentioned in the introduction, was established in 2014 and is funded by the Simons Foundation.
And the goal is to build a bank of donated post-mortem brain tissue to facilitate research into the biological causes of autism and related conditions like philomectomy.
And as a program and as a research program, and as we're doing right now, we work very closely with families, with researchers, with our partners, providers, to really provide a greater knowledge of this type of research and to ensure the most compassionate donation process for families during a very difficult time.
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