SFARI-Funded Projects

Today, with a budget of approximately $78 million per year, SFARI supports over 250 investigators studying autism-related research. Since its launch in 2006, SFARI has provided or committed more than $525 million in external research support to more than 550 investigators in the U.S. and abroad.

Current

Network activity and homeostatic plasticity as endophenotypes for autism

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Pilot
Award #: 648651

Sacha Nelson, M.D., Ph.D. Brandeis University

Gastrointestinal dysfunction and the gut-brain axis in a Chd8 mouse model of autism

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Pilot
Award #: 645766

Evan Elliott, Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University

Characterizing motor deficits and striatal circuit dynamics in rat models of autism

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Pilot
Award #: 646706

Bence Ölveczky, Ph.D. Harvard University

Linking neuroimmune dysfunction, sensory system deficits and behavioral phenotypes in a new mouse model of MEF2C haploinsufficiency syndrome

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Pilot
Award #: 649452

Christopher Cowan, Ph.D. Medical University of South Carolina
Hainan Lang, M.D., Ph.D. Medical University of South Carolina
Bärbel Rohrer, Ph.D. Medical University of South Carolina

Electroencephalography and eye-tracking measures as scalable biomarker-based predictors of ASD in high-risk infants

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Director
Award #: 677835

Shafali Spurling Jeste, M.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Dager, M.D. University of Washington
Kelly Botteron, M.D. Washington University School of Medicine
Alan C. Evans, Ph.D. McGill University
Jed Elison, Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Heather Hazlett, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Schultz, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Evaluating two newly developed treatment outcome measures (BOSCC and ELSA) in the context of an ASD behavioral intervention trial

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Targeted: Novel Outcome Measures for ASD Clinical Trials
Award #: 655054

Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D. Boston University
Connie Kasari, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Shrikanth Narayanan, Ph.D. University of Southern California
Catherine Lord, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
So Hyun “Sophy” Kim, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medicine

Using computational models to understand social learning in children with autism

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Bridge to Independence
Award #: 551940

Gabriela Rosenblau, Ph.D. George Washington University

Elucidating mechanisms underlying fever-associated rescue of behavioral phenotypes relevant to autism

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Research
Award #: 626851

Gloria B. Choi, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Integrated single-cell and functional analysis of Dup15q syndrome

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Research
Award #: 632842

Arnold Kriegstein, M.D., Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco

CRISPR activation-based approach to rescue cellular and behavioral deficits associated with Scn2a haploinsufficiency

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Director
Award #: 629287

Kevin Bender, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco
Nadav Ahituv, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco