SFARI

Marta Benedetti joined the Simons Foundation in 2007 and works with the SFARI team to evaluate and manage the SFARI autism grant portfolio, with particular emphasis on grants in the area of molecular and cellular biology.

Kevin Bender is professor in residence in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). His laboratory is interested in understanding how neurons encode information, with a particular focus on cellular mechanisms that mediate and modulate neuronal excitability. They employ a variety of electrophysiological, optical, computational and genetic techniques to probe information processing across neuronal compartments, and test how these processes are altered in neurological disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Ben Philpot is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell Biology & Physiology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.

Benjamin Scott's research involves the development and application of new technologies to study the neural basis of cognition and complex learned behavior.

Bence Ölveczky is a professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. A mechanical engineer by training, Ölveczky earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University working with Markus Meister on motion processing in the retina. As a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Ölveczky worked with Michale Fee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the neural mechanisms of vocal learning in songbirds.

Benjamin Neale is an associate professor in the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he directs the Genomics of Public Health Initiative.