SFARI director Louis Reichardt will leave SFARI this coming October.

SFARI has awarded four grants in response to the 2019 Novel Outcome Measures in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) request for applications. These grants will support the development and validation of outcome measures aimed at assessing core symptoms of ASD and behavioral changes following treatment.

A uniform call-set of joint variant calls, including single-nucleotide variants and indels, for 9,209 samples with whole-genome sequencing data from the Simons Simplex Collection is now available.

Six current and past SFARI Investigators were among the 100 newly elected members of the National Academy of Medicine.

A number of SFARI Investigators, collaborators and Simons Foundation scientists will present their latest research findings related to the genomic and transcriptomic architecture of autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental conditions at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), which will be held October 15–19 in Houston, TX.

SFARI is pleased to announce that is intends to fund 12 grants in response to the Summer 2019 Pilot Award request for applications.

SFARI Investigators will give a number of presentations at Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, IL (October 19–23).

Findings from the first SPARK genetics study have now been published. The study, which analyzed whole-exome and genome-wide genotyping data from 457 autism families, confirmed known genetic findings and identified new candidate autism risk genes.