Dougherty, Joseph D PHD

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities adversely affect 1 in 6 U.S. children and their families. The IDD Research Center at the Washington University School of Medicine (IDDRC@WUSTL) is a program that comprises three scientific core facilities, one dedicated to exploration of cellular and molecular mechanisms of causation in model systems of IDD, one dedicated to the identification of “signatures” of developmental disability through imaging of the developing brain, and one dedicated to specifying behavioral and genomic atypicalities in patients and translating new understanding of causal mechanisms into higher impact intervention.