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

Trisomy rescues and mosaic chromosomal alterations in autism spectrum disorder

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Data Analysis
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Data Analysis-00020406

Peter Park, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School

Functionally informed model for de novo coding mutations in autism

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Data Analysis
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Data Analysis-00018935

Luke O’Connor, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School

Abnormal sleep oscillations in relation to disturbed sleep in adolescents with autism and their siblings

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Data Analysis
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Data Analysis-00019727

Dara Manoach, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital

The hidden genome: Repetitive DNA in autism spectrum disorders

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Data Analysis
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Data Analysis-00019464

Hyejung Won, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hungoo Lee, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The contribution of functional non-coding variants in glutamatergic neurons to autism

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Data Analysis
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Data Analysis-00019729

John Greally, M.D., Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Identification of protein interaction interfaces disrupted in autism through structural analysis of exome-sequencing data

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Data Analysis
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Data Analysis-00020316

Hilary Finucane, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark Daly, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital

Quantitative co-profiling of social behavior across species to identify conserved phenotypic elements of autism

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Data Analysis
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Data Analysis-00020194

Timothy Dunn, Ph.D. Duke University

Integrating deep learning with splicing-QTL and splicing-TWAS to uncover hidden causal variants in autism spectrum disorders

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Data Analysis
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Data Analysis-00019354

Yoseph Barash, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Defining the cellular and anatomic identity and developmental trajectory of sex-differential subcortical cells and circuits in ASD

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Sex Differences Collaborations
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Sex Differences-00017914

Stephan Sanders, B.M.B.S., Ph.D. University of Oxford
Xin Jin, Ph.D. The Scripps Research Institute
Rothem Kovner, Ph.D. Yale University
Devanand Manoli, M.D., Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco
Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco
Vikaas Sohal, M.D., Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco
Jessica Tollkuhn, Ph.D. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Donna Werling, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin–Madison

Analysis of mechanisms underlying sex epistasis in autism

Awarded: 2025
Award Type: Sex Differences Collaborations
Award #: SFI-AN-AR-Sex Differences-00017860

Joseph Dougherty, Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis
Natasha Marrus, M.D., Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis
Sven Sandin, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai