Skip to content
Simons Foundation
Simons Foundation
Simons Foundation
Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)
Search
  • Explore open funding opportunities for autism research.

    Funding Opportunities

    Early Career Awards

    • Fellows to Faculty Award
    • Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)

    Investigator Awards

    • New Ideas

    Symposia & Travel Awards

    • Conferences & Courses Award

    Shared Programs

    • Pivot Fellowship
    • Simons Society of Fellows

    Resource for Applying

    • Open Funding Opportunities
    • Policies & Procedures
    • Instructional Videos
    • Past Funded Work
  • SFARI has supported over 750 investigators studying autism-related research.

    Research Highlights

    Research

    • SFARI Investigators
    • Funded Projects
    • Publications

    Data Access & Tools

    • SFARI Base
    • SFARI Gene

    Centers & Initiatives

    • Simons Center for the Social Brain
    • Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain

    Collaborations & Consortia

    • SFARI Sex Differences
    • Autism Rat Models Consortium
  • Access data, biospecimens and participant cohorts through SFARI Base.

    SFARI Base

    Cohorts & Tissue Banks

    • SPARK
    • Simons Searchlight
    • Simons Simplex Collection
    • Autism BrainNet
    • Autism Inpatient Collection

    Other Resources

    • Animal Models
    • Biospecimens
    • Research Match

    Data Access & Tools

    • SFARI Base
    • SFARI Gene
    • SFARI Genomes Browser
    • Genotypes & Phenotypes in Families
  • See the latest news and updates from SFARI.

    All News

    News

    • SFARI News
    • Research Highlights
    • Meeting & Workshop Reports
    • Funding News
  • SFARI’s mission is to advance the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders.

    About SFARI

    About SFARI

    • About
    • Scientific Perspectives
    • Contact Us

    People

    • Our Team
    • Scientific Advisory Board
    • SFARI Investigators
  • Careers
    Search all
  • Funding
    Search all
  • Explore opportunities for...
    • Undergraduate students
    • Graduate students
    • Postdoctoral researchers
    • Research scientists
Simons Foundation
Simons Foundation

Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)

  • Funding

    Explore open funding opportunities for autism research.

    Funding Opportunities

    Early Career Awards

    • Fellows to Faculty Award
    • Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)

    Investigator Awards

    • New Ideas

    Symposia & Travel Awards

    • Conferences & Courses Award

    Shared Programs

    • Pivot Fellowship
    • Simons Society of Fellows

    Resource for Applying

    • Open Funding Opportunities
    • Policies & Procedures
    • Instructional Videos
    • Past Funded Work
  • Supported Work

    SFARI has supported over 750 investigators studying autism-related research.

    Research Highlights

    Research

    • SFARI Investigators
    • Funded Projects
    • Publications

    Data Access & Tools

    • SFARI Base
    • SFARI Gene

    Centers & Initiatives

    • Simons Center for the Social Brain
    • Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain

    Collaborations & Consortia

    • SFARI Sex Differences
    • Autism Rat Models Consortium
  • Resources

    Access data, biospecimens and participant cohorts through SFARI Base.

    SFARI Base

    Cohorts & Tissue Banks

    • SPARK
    • Simons Searchlight
    • Simons Simplex Collection
    • Autism BrainNet
    • Autism Inpatient Collection

    Other Resources

    • Animal Models
    • Biospecimens
    • Research Match

    Data Access & Tools

    • SFARI Base
    • SFARI Gene
    • SFARI Genomes Browser
    • Genotypes & Phenotypes in Families
  • News

    See the latest news and updates from SFARI.

    All News

    News

    • SFARI News
    • Research Highlights
    • Meeting & Workshop Reports
    • Funding News
  • About

    SFARI’s mission is to advance the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders.

    About SFARI

    About SFARI

    • About
    • Scientific Perspectives
    • Contact Us

    People

    • Our Team
    • Scientific Advisory Board
    • SFARI Investigators

Filters

Tag

Show 45 more Show less

Type

Show 8 more Show less
Simons Foundation
  • Find a Person

Bringing people and ideas together to fund, conduct, and share transformative science.

Our grants advance knowledge and strengthen connections between science and society.

Discover the latest news, research, and updates.

  • All News
  • Research News
  • Funding Announcements
  • Newsletter Sign Up
  • Press Releases
  • Media Relations

We convene scientists, mathematicians, and thinkers to share ideas and explore new questions.

  • Events Calendar
  • Public Events
  • Presidential Lectures
  • Presents
  • Flatiron Events
  • Past Events

Founded by Jim and Marilyn Simons, we’re a private philanthropy advancing mathematics and basic science.

Work with us on the frontier of basic science research.

  • All Open Positions
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Graduate Students
  • Postdocs
  • Research Scientists

The Flatiron Institute is a research center that uses computational science to advance fields like physics, biology, and astronomy.

  • Explore Flatiron Institute
  • People
  • Careers
  • Publications
  • Software & Data
  • Computational Astrophysics
  • Computational Biology
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Computational Quantum Physics
  • Computational Catalysis
Flatiron Institute
  • Autism
  • Neuroscience
  • Mathematics
  • Ecology & Evolution
  • Plant Biology
  • Grantmaking
  • Media Initiatives
  • Public Events
  • Researcher Engagement
  • National Initiatives
  • Computational Software
  • Computational Datasets
  • SFARI Base
  • Publications
  • Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves
  • Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain
  • Simons Collaboration on Principles of Microbial Ecosystems
All Collaborations
  • Policies & Procedures
  • Instructional Videos
  • Past Funded Work
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Graduate Students
  • Postdocs
  • Research Scientists
All Funding Opportunities
  • Fellows-to-Faculty
  • New Ideas
  • SFARI Conferences & Courses Awards
  • Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience
Autism & Neuroscience
  • Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology & Evolution
  • Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
  • Synthetic Plant Biology
  • Simons Collaborations in Ecology & Evolution
Life Sciences
  • Science in Culture
  • Science in Community
  • STEM Pathways
Science, Society & Culture
  • Scientific Software Research Faculty Award
  • Simons Collaborations in MPS
  • Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics
  • Simons Fellows in Mathematics
  • Targeted Grants to Institutes
  • Targeted Grants in Mathematics & Physical Sciences
  • Travel Support for Mathematicians
Mathematics & Physical Sciences
  • Pivot Fellowship
  • Simons Society of Fellows
  • Our History
  • Annual Reports
  • Visitor Information
  • Media Relations
  • Contact Us
About Us
  • Leadership
  • Board of Trustees
  • Research Staff
Search All People
  • Working Here
  • Internship Opportunities
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Graduate Students
  • Postdoctoral Students
  • Research Scientists
All Open Positions

Centers

  • Computational Astrophysics
  • Computational Biology
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Computational Quantum Physics
  • Scientific Computing Core
  • Initiative for Computational Catalysis

Collaborative Projects

  • Foundation Models of Science
  • Simons Observatory
Flatiron Institute

Search

What are you looking for?

Filter Results
A circular, abstract pattern with irregular, jagged white lines and shapes on a light gray background, resembling a textured surface or cracked ground.
Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)

Autism Research Initiative (SFARI): News

Explore the latest from SFARI

Results update as you type and when you change filters.

Skip to results

Filters

Tag

Show 45 more Show less

Type

Show 8 more Show less

Results

  1. SFARI’s 2018 Funding Priorities

    October 2, 2017
  2. New SFARI Gene Website Launched

    September 18, 2017
  3. A Conversation With Sharmila Banerjee-Basu About SFARI Gene

    September 18, 2017
  4. Whole-genome sequencing of the Simons Simplex Collection: New data release

    August 22, 2017
  5. Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP): New data release

    August 18, 2017
  6. SFARI July 2017 announcements: Bridge to Independence Award RFA, Recruiting SPARK participants into new research studies and more

    July 1, 2017
  7. A Conversation with SFARI Bridge to Independence Investigator Sung Han

    June 23, 2017
  8. SPARK: Research matching program launched

    June 16, 2017
  9. A SFARI channel on bioRxiv

    May 12, 2017
  10. SFARI May 2017 announcements: SPARK update, new SSC data, IMFAR and more

    May 9, 2017
  11. Simons Simplex Collection: Updated medical and educational data now available

    May 5, 2017
  12. IMFAR 2017: Presentations by SFARI Investigators

    April 28, 2017
  13. SFARI Gene: New data release

    April 28, 2017
  14. Epigenetic mechanisms beyond imprinting are widespread in the mammalian brain

    February 28, 2017
  15. A Conversation with SFARI Investigator Liqun Luo

    February 24, 2017
  16. Simons Foundation statement on executive order on visas and immigration

    February 9, 2017
  17. SCN2A variants result in opposite effects on sodium channel function in autism and infantile seizures

    February 3, 2017
  18. Identification of an amygdala circuit involved in social learning

    January 31, 2017
  19. Gene-gene interactions contribute to autism

    January 27, 2017
  20. SFARI announces Bridge to Independence Award finalists

    January 26, 2017
  21. SFARI Gene: New data release

    January 20, 2017
  22. Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP): New data release

    January 20, 2017
  23. SFARI announces 2016 Bridge to Independence Award finalists

    January 13, 2017
  24. SFARI 2016 Explorer awardees announced

    January 13, 2017
  25. A potentially treatable form of autism caused by impaired brain transport of amino acids

    December 30, 2016
  26. SFARI announces 2016 Pilot and Research awardees

    December 22, 2016
  27. SFARI 2016 Pilot and Research awardees announced

    December 16, 2016
  28. Genetic mechanisms underlying physical trait differences between males and females contribute to sex bias in autism

    November 30, 2016
  29. Sequencing Study in a Chinese Cohort Confirms the Importance of De Novo Mutations in Autism

    November 30, 2016
  30. Predicting autism treatment outcome with imaging biomarkers

    November 30, 2016
  31. CASPR2 antibodies from human maternal serum mediate autism-like phenotypes in mice

    October 31, 2016
  32. DIXDC1 contributes to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric phenotypes via altered Wnt signaling

    October 31, 2016
  33. Pathogenic mutations in mitochondrial DNA enriched in autism

    October 31, 2016
  34. SPARK update; SFARI Social at Neuroscience 2016

    October 31, 2016
  35. Neuroscience 2016: Presentations by SFARI Investigators

    October 17, 2016
  36. Microglia-like cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells

    September 30, 2016
  37. Dissecting the neurobehavioral phenotypes caused by loss of RAI1 from specific cell types

    September 30, 2016
  38. Increased risk for autism is associated with mutations in genomic loci that have undergone accelerated evolution in humans

    September 30, 2016
  39. SFARI’s 2017 funding priorities

    September 15, 2016
  40. 2017 Pilot and Research Award applications: The review process

    September 15, 2016
  41. 2017 Pilot and Research Awards – Request for applications

    September 15, 2016
  42. Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP): New data now available

    August 25, 2016
  43. Update on Simons Simplex Collection whole-genome sequencing; Rat and iPSC models for autism research

    August 18, 2016
  44. A computational approach to predicting autism risk genes

    August 17, 2016
  45. Deep brain stimulation rescues neural circuit dysfunction in Rett syndrome mouse model

    August 17, 2016
  46. Update on Simons Simplex Collection whole-genome sequencing data availability

    August 12, 2016
  47. Human-specific BOLA2 duplication at chromosomal region 16p11.2 and the susceptibility of this locus to recurrent rearrangements

    August 5, 2016
  48. Microglia excessively engulf synapses weakened by loss of MeCP2

    July 31, 2016
  • Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • Page 9 of 11
  • Next

About

  • About Us
  • History
  • Annual Reports
  • People
  • Visitor Information
  • Careers

Funding

  • Funding Opportunities
  • Funded Work
  • Simons Award Manager
  • Simons Foundation International
  • Policies & Procedures

Program Areas

  • Life Sciences
  • Autism & Neuroscience
  • Mathematics & Physical Sciences
  • Science, Society & Culture

Connect

  • Newsletters
  • Events
  • Contact us
  • Media Relations
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
Simons Foundation
Bluesky Facebook Instagram YouTube X RSS Feed

Advancing Research in Basic 
Science and Mathematics

Customize your preferences

Your preferences have been saved.

Confirm your subscription by clicking the link in the email we sent.