{"id":2449,"date":"2026-01-08T00:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:15:32","slug":"researchers-receive-2-7m-nih-grant-to-investigate-effects-of-phthalate-exposure-on-neurodevelopment-and-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/researchers-receive-2-7m-nih-grant-to-investigate-effects-of-phthalate-exposure-on-neurodevelopment-and-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Receive $2.7M NIH Grant to Investigate Effects of Phthalate Exposure on Neurodevelopment and Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" 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class=\"person-author\"><div class=\"person-author-wrapper\"><span class=\"person-name\">Howard Gritton and Paul Bonthuis, Jozien Goense not pictured.<\/span><span class=\"person-title\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person-content fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0January 8,2026<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NIH has awarded $2.7 million to University of Illinois researchers Howard Gritton, Paul Bonthuis, and Jozien Goense to study how environmental exposures influence brain development and autism-related behaviors. Building on preliminary findings from a Beckman Institute seed grant, the project combines neuroimaging and animal models to uncover mechanisms linking phthalate exposure to autism risk.\u00a0 Read more from the published article on College of Veterinary Sciences<a href=\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/2026\/01\/08\/nih-grant-effects-of-phthalates-on-neurodevelopment-autism\/\"> Comparative Biosciences News\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}