SFARI announces that a new article summarizing the first year’s activities of SPARK — a SFARI-funded study that aims to recruit, engage and retain 50,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their family members — was published in the journal Neuron.

SFARI is happy to announce a new addition to the gene-scoring module of SFARI Gene: scores and rankings from an additional six published approaches to evaluating the strength of the evidence implicating each gene in autism risk.

SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded 13 grants in response to the Explorer Awards request for applications this year.

SFARI is pleased to announce that it has selected seven finalists in response to the 2017 Bridge to Independence Award request for applications.

New data were added to SFARI Gene in October 2017. This data release included updated gene scores for candidate autism risk genes, new rodent models and new genes and copy number variant loci associated with autism.

SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded 32 grants (19 Pilot Awards and 13 Research Awards) in response to the 2017 Pilot and Research Awards request for applications (RFA).

A selection of presentations that will be given by past and current SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2017 in Washington, D.C., (November 11–15) is highlighted.

SPARK (Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge) is pleased to announce that whole-exome sequencing (WES) and genotyping data are available for 1,369 and 1,398 individuals, respectively.