SFARI is funding 16 projects through its 2025 Data Analysis awards. This award is designed to encourage the use of large, publicly available data resources by providing investigators with the support needed to allocate time and personnel toward working in and publishing from these previously collected data.

These awards support interdisciplinary research into the sex bias associated with autism and its underlying biological mechanisms.

The Simons Foundation revisits several previous members of its Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience (SURFiN).

Recent SFARI-funded research challenges the idea that autism represents a single condition driven by a uniform set of genetic risk factors. Instead, the results support a developmental framework in which distinct constellations of polygenic influences are linked to different diagnostic timelines.

SFARI-funded research demonstrates that activating serotonergic 5HT2c receptors leads to an increase in intracellular calcium, early-response gene expression and elevated protein secretion into cerebrospinal fluid.

SFARI-funded research finds that RAPGEF4 is a key molecular regulator orchestrating prefrontal cortical maturation in primates.

The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is pleased to announce a new data release from Simons Searchlight aimed at improving the scientific understanding of autism.

SFARI-funded research demonstrates that SCN8A mutations underlying DEE-13 disrupt both cortical and hippocampal networks, but in distinct ways.