Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD, a researcher at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, together with Nadav Ahituv, PhD, from the Institute of Human Genetics; Kevin Bender, PhD, from the Center for Integrative Neuroscience; Young Shin Kim, MD, PhD, from the UCSF STAR Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders; and Roy Ben-Shalom, PhD, from UC Davis MIND, has been awarded a $6.25 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to pioneer a novel approach for treating CNS-associated microdeletion syndromes, with a focus on 22q deletion syndromes.