University receives $34.5 million donation for autism research

The University of Cambridge has received US$34.5 million from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang to support research aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of autistic people and their families. The gift is one of the largest ever philanthropic gifts for autism research to a UK university.

The University will join eight other research centres based at Harvard University and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which together form the Yang Tan Collective, created to focus research and translation approaches into human health, disease, and environmental challenges, especially engineering solutions to low-cost settings.

Of the $34.5 million, US$28 million will be used to create The K. Lisa Yang Centre for Autism Research at Cambridge.

A further $6.5 million will enable the creation of The K. Lisa Yang Autism Clinical Centre, to be based in the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital, which is expected to complete construction in 2030.

Read the full article here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/lisa-yang-autism-research

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Source: Cambridge Research News

Posted on 09/07/2026