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The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, or SFARI for short, is a research program established in 2005 by the Simons Foundation, which focuses on all aspects of autism research. Its director is Kelsey Martin. [1] The organization has funded more than $200 million in autism research to 150 different investigators since 2007. [2]
The Autism Science Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit organization that funds evidence-based autism research and supports autism families. [8] The organization was founded in April 2009 by Alison Tepper Singer, a former senior executive of Autism Speaks and the longest-serving public member of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), and Karen Margulis London, co-founder of the ...
Investigators working on autism-related projects, regardless of their funding source, are strongly encourages to submit any type of autism-related data generated in their laboratories. [10] After extensive consultations with the research community, NDAR has established a two-tiered submission strategy for investigators receiving NIH funding.
The gender gap could hinder development of effective interventions for women and girls and result in underdiagnosis. Women tend to be… Women are underrepresented in autism research, and the ...
The plan and budget would have to take into account recommendations of a public/private committee, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which itself would have to include at least one-third public members, a person with autism, and a person who is the parent of a child with autism. The act provides grant programs for states to develop ...
NAAR focused intently on its role in establishing and funding the Autism Tissue Program, a post-mortem brain tissue donation program designed to further autism research studies at the cellular and molecular level. Other major programs included the 'High Risk Baby Sibling Autism Research Project' and the 'NAAR Genome Project'.
The Seaver Autism Center was founded in 1993 by a grant to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai from the Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Foundation. The Foundation was established in 1984 and created exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, and educational endeavors.
Rebecca Jean Moellman-Landa (born 1955) is an American speech-language pathologist specializing in neuropsychology and autism research. She is the founder and director of the center for autism and related disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Landa is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.