Webinar: Autism Research Needs Your SPARK-Moving Autism Research Forward
Date Published: April 22, 2025
In this recorded webinar, Dr. Wendy Chung, the principal investigator of SPARK, shares insights on autism research progress, highlights key findings from the past year in SPARK, and outlines the goals for SPARK’s future.
Who is Wendy Chung?
As principal investigator of SPARK, Wendy Chung, M.D., Ph.D., leads the effort to build a community of individuals with autism and their families, working with them to better understand the causes of autism and to develop better means of supporting individuals and improving lives. A clinical and molecular geneticist, Chung received a B.A. in biochemistry and economics from Cornell University, an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, and a Ph.D. in genetics from Rockefeller University. She is currently the Chief of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.