As Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai, and principal investigator of the Autism Sequencing Consortium, Joseph Buxbaum studies the heritability of autism to explore potential therapies for the disorder.
Joseph Buxbaum
Professor
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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