{"id":7539,"date":"2025-04-11T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:36:43","slug":"levine-labs-cutting-edge-research-featured-on-wfsb-uconn-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2025\/04\/11\/levine-labs-cutting-edge-research-featured-on-wfsb-uconn-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Levine Lab&#8217;s cutting-edge research featured on WFSB, UConn Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4-Year Old Fiona Vanderhoof Has Donated Her Cells to the Levine Lab at UConn to Fuel it&#8217;s Cutting-Edge Autism Research Developing Future Gene Therapies. As a baby, Fiona was diagnosed with a genetic condition that causes profound autism known as Dup15q Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Dr. Levine&#8217;s research, please click on the WFSB video below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/video\/2025\/04\/10\/doctor-could-be-cusp-an-important-breakthrough-with-autism-treatments-thanks-four-year-old-girl\/\" rel=\"\">https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/video\/2025\/04\/10\/doctor-could-be-cusp-an-important-breakthrough-with-autism-treatments-thanks-four-year-old-girl\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And read the article on UConn Today here:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/04\/this-world-autism-awareness-day-a-proud-mom-celebrates-her-young-daughters-advancement-of-science\/\" rel=\"\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/04\/this-world-autism-awareness-day-a-proud-mom-celebrates-her-young-daughters-advancement-of-science\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Levine Lab 2-25\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7445 aligncenter lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25.jpg 885w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/226;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Levine Lab 2-25\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7445 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/02\/Levine-UConn-Today-2-25.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4-Year Old Fiona Vanderhoof Has Donated Her Cells to the Levine Lab at UConn to Fuel it&#8217;s Cutting-Edge Autism Research Developing Future Gene Therapies. As a baby, Fiona was diagnosed with a genetic condition that causes profound autism known as Dup15q Syndrome. &nbsp; To learn more about Dr. Levine&#8217;s research, please click on the WFSB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 21:32:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7543,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}