Jacksonville, Fla. – September 13, 2026 -- Alan Alwakeel, a recent graduate of Stanton College Preparatory School, received a $3,000 Humane Science Award from the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) for an AI-powered cancer therapy simulation platform that eliminates the need for animal testing.

New Haven, Connecticut – September 07, 2026 -- Yale School of Medicine (YSM) has secured close to $25 million in research funding from the Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) program, part of ARIA's Human Neurodevelopment Research Centers initiative. The funding will support efforts to build a foundational atlas and model of human brain development, pinpointing when autism-related developmental differences first emerge and how they diverge from typical developmental trajectories.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- Yale School of Medicine has secured a nearly $25 million grant from the Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) initiative to build the first high-resolution map of the developing human brain and pinpoint where autism diverges from typical neural development.