2023 Summer Pilot Awards Announced
SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund 14 grants in response to the 2023 Summer Pilot Award request for applications.
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SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration Shares Findings at Second Annual Meeting
On January 8–9, 2024, SFARI welcomed researchers to its second annual meeting of the SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration (SSDC).
Simons Searchlight December 2023 Update: New Phenotypic Data Available
New phenotypic data from Simons Searchlight participants were recently added to SFARI Base. This release includes data from individuals with 94 gene changes and 15 copy number variants known to be connected to autism.
2023 SFARI Cross-Species Studies of ASD Awardees Announced
SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund three collaborative projects in response to the 2023 Cross-Species Studies of ASD request for applications.
SFARI November 2023 Announcements: 2024 RFA schedule, SfN Social and more
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Information about SFARI requests for applications in 2024, (2) Announcing the 2023 SFARI Bridge to Independence fellows, (3) Organoids offer new insights into forebrain neuron development in ASD, (4) New research clarifies connection between autism and the microbiome, (5) Simons Foundation Autism and Neuroscience Social at Neuroscience 2023, (6) SFARI Bridge to Independence Award — Request for applications.
SFARI’s plans for requests for grant applications 2024
To ensure that our funding is as impactful as possible, SFARI will be undergoing a strategic planning process in the first half of 2024. We have thus adjusted our request for applications (RFA) schedule to ensure that the SFARI science team can devote sufficient time and energy to this effort. In 2024, we will hold the Bridge to Independence (BTI) RFA, and one call for Pilot Awards, in tandem with a call for continuation funding for former Pilot Award grantees whose projects have been successful. We will also hold a targeted RFA on Bridging Early Neurodevelopment and Emerging Neural Circuits, as well as a call for proposals for an updated version of SFARI Gene.
Two studies using brain organoids reveal cell-type-specific changes during the early stages of human forebrain neuronal development in autism
Two studies by different research groups — one led by Flora Vaccarino and the other by Juergen Knoblich — used brain organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells of people with autism and showed how transcriptional alterations affecting certain cell types during human brain development could contribute to the early emergence of ASD.
Neuroscience 2023: Presentations by SFARI Investigators
A number of presentations will be given by SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2023, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.