FPG People
Molly Losh, Ph.D.
FPG Fellow
losh@med.unc.edu
PH: 919.966.8153
Mailing Address:
Campus Box 8180
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8180
Web Site(s):
projects.fpg.unc.edu/cndp/index.cfm
Molly Losh, Ph.D. is a fellow at FPG. Her primary research interest focuses on delineating the nature and basis of language impairment in autism, fragile X syndrome,and other neurogenetic disorders. Her studies adopt clinical-behavioral and family-genetic methods and designs to characterize patterns of language strengths and weaknesses that define particular disorders, and examine ties to neuropsychological and genetic underpinnings.
Losh’s current projects are funded by NICHD, NIMH, NSF, and several foundations. They focus broadly on: studies of fragile X syndrome and autism—examining language and neuropsychological profiles of individuals with fragile X syndrome and autism, as well as relatives of individuals with these disorders, to identify neurobiological substrates associated with these disorders, and illuminate their genetic underpinnings, and family-genetic studies of language in autism— examining language characteristics that aggregate among family members of individuals with autism, and which may be used to detect the genes involved in this disorder.
Losh is an assistant professor in the department of Allied Health Sciences, as well as an Investigator at the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center. She co-chairs the NDRC Investigator’s forum and is a member of several professional organizations including the American Psychological Association, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the International Society for Autism Research. She is the recipient of several awards including a K12 Career Development Award, NIH LRP award, and several travel awards through NIH.
