So rather than just pick people who we knew, who we knew were good scientists, we requested applications. These RFAs, request for application, follow an NIH policy, where we can then request the application and in an objective way evaluate it by calling in review committees, and evaluate it and follow it up in different time periods – six months, a year, two, three years, and see how progress is going. But I must say, we picked excellent grants and good people. Many people tell me that when we have our annual meeting, which grew in notoriety and popularity, it's the best meeting they go to all year.

And these are scientists who are very distinguished, so it's a real compliment to hear that. They've written it to me, and they've followed up on that. So, the reputation of the foundation grew in the science community, and I think in the philanthropic community. But Jim and Marilyn have the resources to do good things, and they do. And I advise them even beyond autism. The Structural Biology Center up at CCNY impacts autism and it's a whole new technology. They both dove in and learned about what is the new mode of cryo-electron microscopy, and they got behind it enthusiastically.

They've also helped set up the New York Genome Center. I think it's still struggling a little bit to take off and catch up with some of the other prominent genome centers across the country, but they won't abandon it.