Politico October 15, 2025
DATA DIVE
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers landed a unique slice of the National Institutes of Health’s $50 million autism data science initiative to find the cause of autism — as fact checkers.
The team was awarded a three-year, $5.1 million grant to launch the Autism Replication, Validation and Reproducibility Center, or AR2, which will serve as a scientific quality-control hub for the teams and projects involved in the initiative.
Erin spoke with Judy Zhong, principal investigator of the project, who directs the data coordinating center at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, to learn more.
This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
How will the center work?
For the awardee projects, when they generate a model, or when...
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