2025 Data Analysis — Request for Applications

The goal of this award is to increase use of large, publicly available data resources by supporting investigators to allocate time and personnel toward working in and publishing from previously collected data. Applications should leverage existing publicly accessible datasets to ask new questions and extract new knowledge relevant to the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Priority will be given to applications that use SFARI-supported resources, although all applications will be considered as long as data are publicly accessible at the time of application. The program supports projects that are feasible to complete within two years and encourages applicants to explore datasets from which they have not already published. This RFA will not fund new data collection, focusing instead on further analyses of existing datasets that are often not incentivized to the same degree as collection of new data. Applicants must have access to or permission to access the data resources at the time of application, and priority will be given to SFARI-funded datasets including SPARK, Simons Searchlight, Autism Inpatient Collection, Simons Sleep Project, and Simons Simplex Collection.