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SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration

Annual Meeting 2025

Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)

Speakers

  • Aravinda Chakravarti New York University
  • Stephan Sanders University of Oxford
  • Joseph Dougherty Washington University
  • Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
  • David Page Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

When

  • – ET

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Overview

On January 27–28, 2025, Simon Foundation Executive Vice President of Autism and Neuroscience Kelsey Martin and SFARI Senior Scientist Alan Packer opened the annual meeting of the SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration (SSDC).

Formed in 2021, the collaboration seeks to understand the male bias in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which could provide important clues to ASD’s etiology in general. Over 70 participants attended in person, and a similar number watched virtually.

The SSDC is composed of five working groups, led by Aravinda Chakravarti, Stephan Sanders, Joseph Dougherty, Simon Baron-Cohen, and David Page. Each group presented new data in three talks, followed by a forward-looking talk from the group director.

 

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