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Dr. Griffin awarded an $850,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health
Dr. Griffin has been awarded a 5 year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The funded project, titled “Investigating Neural Predictors of Real-World Social Attention in Autism During Naturalistic Social Interactions,” will use innovative ambulatory eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) methods to study how autistic and neurotypical children attend to faces during live, face-to-face interactions. This work addresses a major gap in the field by moving beyond traditional lab-based tasks that rely on static images, aiming to better capture the complexity of real-world social behavior in autistic children.
Dr. Griffin receives Young Explorer Award in Switzerland
Dr. Griffin recived the 2024 NOMIS and Science Young Explorer Award for his innovative approaches to autism research. The NOMIS foundation hosted a ceremony for this award at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where Dr. Griffin gave a talk about his bold and innovative approaches in autism research.
Dr. Griffin receives Innovation in Autism Research Award
Dr. Griffin, director of the Griffin Laboratory, received a prestigious international award from the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) and the Alan B. Slifka Foundation in recognition of his innovative vision for autism research. The award, which includes $25,000 in research funding, will support the Griffin Laboratory's goal of capturing naturalistic neural responses to faces in autistic children. Dr. Griffin was presented the award at INSAR’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
Chris Jaison recieves Summer Fellowship
Chris Jaison, research assistant, recieves a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to investigate how autistic traits influence the neural processing of eye gaze.
Dr. Griffin recieves Division of Research Grant
Dr. Griffin recieves funding from the Division of Research at University of Houston to utlize novel ambulatory EEG technology to evaluate the ecological validity of neural markers of face processing in autism.
New article published in Science!
Dr. Griffin's prize essay titled, "Eyes are windows to the brain: Capturing eye movements to better understand face processing in autism" for the NOMIS Foundation and Science Young Explorer Award was published in Science!
New Publication
Dr. Griffin and collaborator Dr. McPartland (Yale University) publish article in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of eye movement patterns in a large sample of over 300 autistic children.
Dr. Griffin recieves grant from Autism Science Foundation
Dr. Griffin recieves pilot grant from the Autism Science Foundation to expand the utilty of biological markers of autism to more naturalistic settings.
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