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The SPARK Research Match Expansion request for applications (RFA) encourages and supports applications for SPARK Research Match studies from principal investigators to increase SPARK research opportunities to individuals …

The Fellows-to-Faculty Award program supports talented early career scientists by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. The focus of this program is the $600 …

The goal of the New Ideas Award is to provide early stage support for bold, exploratory research that tests novel hypotheses and opens new conceptual or experimental directions …

Supports early career scientists transitioning to tenure-track positions with a $600,000 three-year research grant, mentoring, peer support and a collaborative community.

… we support partners, programs and initiatives that seek to broaden the scientific community and open pathways to science and mathematics careers. The Simons Foundation provides equal opportunities …

The Fellows-to-Faculty Award helps early career scientists transition to tenure-track positions with a $600,000 three-year research grant, mentoring, peer support and a collaborative …

… partners, programs and initiatives that seek to broaden the scientific community and open pathways to science and mathematics careers. The Simons Foundation provides equal opportunities to all …

Supports conferences and courses advancing research across autism and neurodevelopment, healthy cognitive aging, ecological neuroscience, and systems and computational neuroscience.

… awardees of this RFA will work as a consortium to use these rat models to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying neural circuits relevant to …

… find an extended list of literature describing early developmental phenotypes here.

… Investigators will include the evaluation of progress on previous or ongoing SFARI grants. Instructions for Submission Applications must be submitted via the Simons Award Manager (SAM). Please …

… towards the page limit. Our Commitment to Expanding Pathways to Science and Opportunities for All Many of the greatest ideas and discoveries come from a diverse mix …

… individuals with autism; for example, machine learning approaches that could amplify measurable gains from intensive behavioral interventions would be of interest. SFARI considered the following as out …

… background. While there is no rigorous way to model “idiopathic” ASD in non-human animals, we encouraged applicants to carefully consider and rationalize comparisons of humans with …

Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) were intended to advance our understanding of the genetic basis of ASD and the molecular and cellular consequences of genetic …

Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) were intended to advance the understanding of ASD through analyses of human postmortem brain tissue donated to the Autism BrainNet …

… circuits relevant to autism and related NDD.

Several prospective pregnancy cohorts, across multiple continents, were recruited during the COVID-19 pandemic. These cohorts afforded the opportunity to better understand the impact of maternal infection and …

… D.M. Biol. Sex Differ. 7, 58 (2016) PubMed Doan R.N. et al. Nat. Genet. 51, 1092–1098 (2019) PubMed Baron-Cohen S. et al. Mol …

The goal of the Research Award was to provide support for investigation of key unresolved research questions in autism, particularly those that connect genetic etiologies to brain function …

Intervention studies for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are hampered by a lack of reliable and sensitive measures to assess treatment response, whether the interventions are behavioral or pharmacological …

The overall goal of SPARK (Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge) is to recruit, engage and retain a research community of at least 50,000 individuals in …

SPARK (Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research) is an autism research initiative that aims to recruit, engage and retain a community of 50,000 individuals with autism and their …

… 400 TB) available to their academic or cloud-based computing resources. SFARI understood that validation of prioritized hits was a key part of this project and coordinated …

Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) were intended to advance our understanding of the genetic basis of autism, and in particular the potential role of missense …

Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) were intended to advance our understanding of the impact of activation of the innate immune system on behavioral, circuit, synaptic …

This request for applications (RFA) was intended to advance our understanding of the circuit basis for behavioral and cognitive alterations relevant to autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The goal …

The Simons Variation in Individuals Project (now known as Simons Searchlight) comprises a large cohort of individuals with a deletion or duplication of chromosomal segment 16p11.2 (approximately …

To maximize the ability to make direct comparisons among mouse models, this request for applications sought applications for systematic, rigorous and scalable analyses of behavioral phenotypes across multiple …

This award program was designed to enhance our existing support of autism research by providing timely resources to enable high-risk/high-impact, exploratory experiments relevant to our …