Emma Mohr, MD, and Co-Principal Investigator, Karla Ausderau, OTR/L, PhD in the UW Department of Kinesiology, were recently awarded a $3.8 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) for their five-year project, “Early neural predictors and neuropathogenesis of sensorimotor neurodevelopmental deficits in macaque infants exposed to Zika virus in utero.” Using an existing cohort of ZIKV-exposed infant macaques that were born during previous NIH-funded studies at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, infant neurodevelopment will be studied in a controlled setting. The goal of the project is to identify neural predictors in early infancy associated with the development of neurodevelopmental deficits in childhood. The central hypothesis is that the underlying neuropathology will be associated with early dysfunctional sensorimotor brain regions and networks, which will in turn predict sensorimotor deficits present in early childhood.