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Awardee

Shafali Jeste, M.D.

SFARI Investigator

SFARI Scientific Review Board

Affiliations
  • Director, Developmental Neurophysiology Lab, Center for Autism Research and Treatment, University of California, Los Angeles

Publications

Remote monitoring of social attention in neurogenetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disability.

Autism Res., February 3, 2025

T. Frazier, Busch R.M., Klaas P., Lachlan K., S. Jeste, A. Kolevzon, et al.

Developmental trajectories of infants with multiplex family risk for autism: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium study.

JAMA Neurol., October 6, 2019

McDonald N.M., Senturk D., Scheffler A., Brian J.A., Carver L.J., T. Charman, et al.

Deletions of NRXN1 (neurexin-1) predispose to a wide spectrum of developmental disorders.

Am. J. Med. Genet. B. Neuropsychiatr. Genet., June 4, 2010

Ching M.S.L., Shen Y., Tan W-H., S. Jeste, E. Morrow, Chen X., et al.

Clinical genetic testing for patients with autism spectrum disorders.

Pediatrics, March 31, 2010

Shen Y., Dies K.A., Holm I.A., Bridgemohan C., Sobeih M.M., Caronna E.B., et al.

Projects

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Quantitative and remote methods to study early cognitive development and heterogeneity in autism

Awarded 2021
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Electroencephalography and eye-tracking measures as scalable biomarker-based predictors of ASD in high-risk infants

Awarded 2019

Featuring Shafali Jeste

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2021 SFARI Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science Awardees Announced

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SFARI Workshop Explores Challenges and Opportunities of Gene Therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder

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SFARI 2019 Director Awards Announced

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Workshop Plumbs Infancy for Autism Insights

Events

On the Road to Precision Health: Brain-Based Biomarkers in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Lecture

February 7, 2018

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Shafali Jeste

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SFARI is the Simons Foundation’s autism research program, advancing the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders through funding, collaboration, and open science.

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