SFARI Pilot Progression Award

The goal of the Pilot Progression Award is to provide continuing support for projects initiated during SFARI Pilot awards that have advanced significantly and produced insights that justify an extension. This mechanism is intended for projects that generated promising preliminary data during their initial Pilot funding and remain relevant to autism spectrum disorders research but may not yet be suited for funding from other sources like NIH. The Pilot Progression Award is not meant to provide additional time and budget to support the completion of original Pilot aims, but instead to support extensions or expansions of these projects, such as expanding the number of genetic models studied, moving to the next logical level of mechanistic understanding, or broadening experiments to include additional behaviors or brain regions. Applicants are encouraged to provide evidence of attempts to obtain funding for proposed work from other sources. Applications will be reviewed first by the SFARI science team, and then a subset will be peer-reviewed by an external review panel.