KTHV is reporting that the Jane Botsford Johnson Foundation, based in New York City, has donated $1.2 million to Arkansas Children’s Hospital for autism research.

The research, to be directed by S. Jill James, director of the autism metabolic genomics laboratory at the hospital’s Research Institute (ACHRI), will investigate biochemical abnormalities in autistic children.

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