SFARI senior scientist Alan Packer, SPARK director Pamela Feliciano, and former Simons Searchlight outreach manager Misia Kowanda discuss differences and similarities between the ASD gene lists maintained by SFARI, SPARK and Simons Searchlight.
SFARI hosted an informational session on the 2022 Bridge to Independence Award (BTI) request for applications (RFA). The session provided a brief overview of the BTI program and its objectives from SFARI senior scientist Alice Luo Clayton and an open Q&A panel and breakout room discussions with current BTI fellows Gabriella Boulting, Marino Pagan, and Stephanie Rudolph.
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Analysis of postmortem brain tissue from the Autism BrainNet collection – Request for applications, (2) 2021 Genomics of ASD: Pathways to Genetic Therapies awardees announced, (3) Autism BrainNet to digitize the Autism Celloidin Library of postmortem brains, (4) Neuroscience 2021: Presentations by SFARI Investigators, (5) SFARI Investigators awarded Nobel Prize, Lasker Award and MacArthur Fellowship, (6) Highlights of SFARI-funded research, (7) SFARI Supplement to Enhance Equity and Diversity (SEED) – Request for applications, (8) SPARK Research Match Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity – Request for applications.
Grants awarded through this RFA were intended to advance the understanding of autism spectrum disorder through analyses of human postmortem brain tissue donated to the Autism BrainNet collection.