Children's Hospital (Cincinnati) doctor gets grant to study autism

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Children's Hospital doctor gets grant to study autism

Cincinnati Business Courier

Dr. Molloy, a physician-researcher at Cincinnati Children's

Hospital Medical Center, will receive a $100,000 award that she will

use to study the causes of autism.

The two-year Schmidlapp Scholar Award comes from the Fifth Third

Bank/Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Women Scholars Program.

" We're developing two lines of research: how genetics contributes to

susceptibility to autism and how the immune system is related to

autism, " Molloy said in a Children's Hospital press release.

A parent of a child with autism, Molloy joined Children's faculty in

2003 to redirect her career focus to the study of autism.

With a $500,000 grant from the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund, with

Fifth Third Bank as trustee, Children's established the Fifth Third

Bank/Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Women Scholars Program in 1997 to

enhance the recruitment and retention of female researchers. The

program, believed to be the first of its kind in the United States,

includes a mentoring program and protected time for research.

The goal of the Schmidlapp Scholar Award is to identify junior female

faculty members who show promise and leadership skills, to provide

them with financial support and protected time for research, and to

help them through the tenure and promotion process.

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