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  1. Simons Searchlight July 2025 Update: New Phenotypic Data Available

    July 30, 2025
  2. SINEUPs: lncRNAs With the Potential To Upregulate Haploinsufficient Autism Risk Genes

    July 16, 2025
  3. New Study Reveals Subclasses of Autism by Linking Traits to Genetics

    July 9, 2025
  4. Applications Open for SFARI Data Analysis RFA

    July 1, 2025
  5. Autism Inpatient Collection Releases Genetic, Phenotypic Data for More Than 1,500 Hospitalized Children With Autism

    June 18, 2025
  6. Autism BrainNet Releases Genetic Data for 27 New Brain Samples

    June 9, 2025
  7. SFARI To Fund 18 Patient Advocacy Group Conferences

    May 12, 2025
  8. SFARI Funds 5 Projects Aiming To Understand Early Neural Circuit Development in Autism

    May 7, 2025
  9. AI-Powered Tool Maps the Fine Details of Rodent Social Behavior

    April 29, 2025
  10. SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration Gathers for Third Annual Meeting

    April 23, 2025
  11. Announcing the Recipients of the 2024 Pilot and Pilot Progression Awards

    April 8, 2025
  12. Simons Sleep Project Releases Data About Sleep Behaviors and Autism

    March 27, 2025
  13. Paul Wang To Take on New Role in SFARI Pharmaceutical and Biotech Relations

    March 11, 2025
  14. 5 Simons-Supported Investigators Receive Awards From National Academy of Sciences

    January 27, 2025
  15. SFARI Researchers Gather in Edinburgh for 2024 Autism Rat Consortium Meeting

    October 30, 2024
  16. Simons Foundation Accepting Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Award

    October 2, 2024
  17. Simons Foundation Announces 2024 Class of Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Fellows

    September 30, 2024
  18. SFARI Gene Workshop Touches on the Future of Autism Gene Databases

    September 13, 2024
  19. Simons Foundation Announces 13 Recipients of 2024 Independence Awards

    August 15, 2024
  20. Autism BrainNet: New Genetic Data Available

    August 14, 2024
  21. 2023 Summer Pilot Awards Announced

    June 6, 2024
  22. SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration Shares Findings at Second Annual Meeting

    May 17, 2024
  23. Applications Open for 2024–2025 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience

    March 26, 2024
  24. 2023 SFARI Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science Awardees Announced

    January 23, 2024
  25. Simons Searchlight December 2023 Update: New Phenotypic Data Available

    January 19, 2024
  26. 2023 SFARI Cross-Species Studies of ASD Awardees Announced

    January 18, 2024
  27. Two Studies Using Brain Organoids Reveal Cell-Type-Specific Changes During the Early Stages of Human Forebrain Neuronal Development in Autism

    November 9, 2023
  28. Two SFARI Investigators Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

    November 9, 2023
  29. Neuroscience 2023: Presentations by SFARI Investigators

    October 31, 2023
  30. SFARI 2023 Winter Pilot Awardees Announced

    October 12, 2023
  31. Simons Foundation Announces Next Class of Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Fellows

    September 26, 2023
  32. Simons Foundation Announces 13 Recipients of 2023 Independence Awards

    September 12, 2023
  33. SPARK July 2023 Update: New Phenotypic Data Available

    August 15, 2023
  34. New Research Clarifies Connection Between Autism and the Microbiome

    June 26, 2023
  35. SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration Gather To Share Their Progress

    June 1, 2023
  36. Postponing the Launch of the Upcoming RFA on Genomics of ASD

    June 1, 2023
  37. Simons Foundation Renames Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program in Honor of Krishna Shenoy

    May 5, 2023
  38. Approaches for Measuring Sensory Function in ASD/NDD

    April 25, 2023
  39. Excessive Protein Degradation Is Identified as a New Cellular Pathology and a Potential Target for Therapeutic Intervention in Fragile X Syndrome

    March 23, 2023
  40. 2022 Genomics of ASD: Pathways to Genetic Therapies Awardees Announced

    March 23, 2023
  41. Simons Foundation Accepting Applications for Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Fellowships

    March 23, 2023
  42. A Novel Eye-Tracking Paradigm Identifies an Influence of Perceptual Load on Social Attention in Autism

    March 14, 2023
  43. A New Approach To Analyzing Genomic Association Data Finds Convergence of Both Rare and Common Genetic Influences on Autism at Chromosome 16p

    March 6, 2023
  44. January 2023 Update: New Simons Searchlight Data Added to SFARI Base

    January 25, 2023
  45. SPARK December 2022 update: New Phenotypic Data Available

    January 4, 2023
  46. Simons Foundation Opens Applications for Independence Awards

    November 29, 2022
  47. Simons Searchlight Gathers Families and Researchers for Conference on CSNK2A1 and SETBP1–Related Conditions

    November 28, 2022
  48. 2022 SFARI Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science Awardees Announced

    October 24, 2022
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