About

The goal of CHEA is simple — to accelerate research into questions of germ cell and heritable impacts of GA. CHEA’s primary effort is management of a listserv to help connect researchers to information and resources related to this topic. It also provides Resources on the website, and from time to time a newsletter for its email list.

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People

The project is chaired by research philanthropist and advocate Jill Escher and co-chaired by research scientist Hsiao-Lin Wang, PhD, Emory University.

Dedication

This site is dedicated to the memory of Feda and Muhammed Almaliti, whose history helped inspire the GA germline exposure hypothesis of autism, and CHEA.

Feda Almaliti, 1977-2020, and her severely autistic son Mu, 2004-2020, pictured at a fundraiser in early 2020.

Feda Almaliti, 1977-2020, and her severely autistic son Mu, 2004-2020, pictured at a fundraiser in early 2020.