New federal autism committee head has financial ties to leucovorin STAT News | September 29, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/29/new-federal-autism-committee-head-has-financial-ties-to-leucovorin/ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has handed the reins of federal autism research to a doctor with a commercial stake in one of the administration’s favorite autism treatments. As STAT’s Amanda Erickson reports, the HHS secretary has installed pediatric neurologist John Gaitanis as chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, the panel that helps the federal government decide how to allocate roughly $2 billion in autism research.