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Awardee

Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

SFARI Scientific Review Board

Affiliations
  • Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Publications

Reversing behavioural abnormalities in mice exposed to maternal inflammation.

Nature, September 27, 2017

Y. Yim, Park A., Berrios J., Lafourcade M., Pascual L.M., Soares N., et al.

Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring.

Nature, September 27, 2017

Kim S., Kim H., Y. Yim, Ha S., Atarashi K., Tan T.G., et al.

The maternal interleukin-17a pathway in mice promotes autism-like phenotypes in offspring.

Science, February 25, 2016

G. Choi, Y. Yim, Wong H., Kim S., Kim H., Kim S.V., et al.

Projects

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Exploring the role of Th17-inducing maternal intestinal bacteria in autism

Awarded 2016
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Roles of pro-inflammatory Th17 cells in autism

Awarded 2013

Events

Microbiota and the host immune system in autism

Lecture

October 29, 2014

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Dan Littman

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