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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> U.S. EPA
[mailto:usaepa@govdelivery.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 08, 2007
12:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Snyder, Mark<BR><B>Subject:</B> News Release: Breaking
the Silence: $7.5 Million to UC Davis to Research Autism<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><!--EMAIL_HEADER--><!--/EMAIL_HEADER--><!--BULLETIN_HEADER-->
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">News
for Release: </SPAN><st1:date month="8" day="8" year="2007"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Wednesday,
Aug. 8, 2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
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</SPAN><BR></SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">U.S.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) <BR><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><BR>Breaking the Silence: <BR>$7.5 Million
to UC Davis to Research Autism <BR><BR></B>Contact: Suzanne Ackerman, (202)
564-4355 / ackerman.suzanne@epa.gov <BR><BR>(</SPAN><st1:place><st1:city><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Washington</SPAN></st1:city><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">,
</SPAN><st1:state><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">D.C.</SPAN></st1:state></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
- </SPAN><st1:date month="8" day="8" year="2007"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aug.
8, 2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">)
In order to continue federal progress on research on autism, EPA and the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) today announced
renewed funding for The University of California/Davis's Center for Children's
Environmental Health (CCEH). This center will investigate how genes and exposure
to environmental chemicals during fetal development may play a role in the
development of autism. The UC Davis Center will support three projects in
partnership with the internationally recognized M.I.N.D. Institute of
</SPAN><st1:place><st1:city><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sacramento</SPAN></st1:city><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">,
</SPAN><st1:state><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Calif.</SPAN></st1:state></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR><BR>In the past, health problems
were attributed to a single cause and effect: a virus, genetics, or trauma. But
many illnesses do not fit this model. There are a number of emerging theories
that many diseases are influenced by multiple environment and genes (heredity),
the environment, and gene-environment interactions. <BR><BR>There are several
childhood ailments that are rising with no obvious explanation: asthma,
allergies and autism. Estimates show that there could be up to 1.5 million
autistic people in the </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">United
States</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
today. The causes of autism are largely unknown, although a high familial
recurrence rate supports a strong genetic component. Autism is a disorder
defined by lack of social and communication skills, limited capacity for
language, and repetitive patterns of behavior. <BR><BR>"It is part of EPA's
mission to protect even the most vulnerable members of our society. Autism is a
serious developmental problem affecting over 1 million children," said George
Gray, EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Research and Development.
"Therefore, EPA is pleased to fund the UC </SPAN><st1:place><st1:placename><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Davis</SPAN></st1:placename><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:placetype><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Center</SPAN></st1:placetype></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
that brings together high caliber scientists from many disciplines to address
key needs in research, assessment, treatment and outreach." <BR><BR>The ultimate
goal of the center is to determine the mechanisms by which chemicals known to be
toxic to the developing nervous and immune systems contribute to abnormal
development of social behavior in children, leading to strategies for prevention
and intervention. Researchers will also identify which combination of
environmental exposures most likely contribute to the problem.</SPAN> </P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">More
about the EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers Research on Autism:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A
href="http://es.epa.gov/ncer/childrenscenters/autism.html"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">http://es.epa.gov/ncer/childrenscenters/autism.html</SPAN></A>
<BR><BR>More about the Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease
Prevention Research: <A href="http://es.epa.gov/ncer/childrenscenters/"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">http://es.epa.gov/ncer/childrenscenters/</SPAN></A>
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