Lilia Iakoucheva is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.
Lilia Iakoucheva
Associate professor
University of California, San Diego
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The future of autism therapies: A conversation with Lilia Iakoucheva and Derek Hong
If a therapy for autism’s core traits makes it to market, it will likely take one of three forms, the researchers say.
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14 April 2023 | 5 min read
Tangled web of proteins holds clues to autism’s complexity
Understanding how mutations in genes linked to autism perturb the different versions of proteins the genes form could reveal new targets for treatments.
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28 February 2017 | 5 min read
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