SFARI

The Simons Sleep Project (SSP) is an open-science data resource intended to accelerate research into sleep and daily behaviors in autism. This project utilized wearable and nearable devices to record extensive behavioral and neurophysiological data directly from participants in their home environment over multiple days and nights. Parent questionnaires, daily sleep diaries and whole exome DNA sequencing data are also available for all participants. View the recruitment video for the study to learn how data was collected.

SFARI is helping to make iPS cell lines derived from individuals who participated in the SSC and Simons Searchlight available to researchers.

In 2021, SFARI launched the Autism Rat Models Consortium (ARC) RFA. Grants supported through this RFA use SFARI autism rat models to investigate the biology of autism risk genes, with a particular focus on complex behaviors and their underlying neural circuits.