[ Simons Foundation - SFARI Autism BrainNet collection RFA | Research Funding ]
Event details
| Date | 10.01.2022 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance. Grants awarded through this request for applications (RFA) are intended to advance the understanding of ASD through analyses of human postmortem brain tissue donated to the Autism BrainNet collection.
This RFA invites individual and collaborative applications that study and compare gene expression at the tissue and single-cell level. Such analyses could also include alternative splicing/isoform analysis, RNA editing, noncoding RNAs, epigenetic modifications and/or proteomics. It also welcomes studies of cellular neuroanatomy and immunohistochemical research on identified transmitter systems. For all studies, there is a nonexclusive emphasis on the cortex.
Priority will be given to those efforts that will lead to the most comprehensive characterization of the tissue and generate large shareable data sets. Consideration will also be given to those proposals making use of both the frozen and fixed tissue, preferably from the same donor, with attention given to the ways in which these data sets can be harmonized to facilitate sharing.
Duration: 24 months
Funding: max. $1’000’000
Eligibility: All applicants and key collaborators must hold a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree and have a faculty position or the equivalent at a college, university, medical school or other research facility. Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign nonprofit organizations; public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local government, and eligible agencies of the federal government. There are no citizenship or country requirements.
How to Apply:, The Simons Foundation uses an electronic grants submission process. All interested grant applicants must submit their applications online through proposalCENTRAL. To begin, log in as an applicant, navigate to the grant opportunities tab, select Simons Foundation from the ’Filter by Grant Maker’ drop-down list. You will then see the list of current Simons Foundation grant opportunities and will be able to select the Autism BrainNet program.
If EPFL will serve as your host institution, please use the following institution name in proposalCENTRAL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. A signature page is required for this submission; contact the Research Office for the institutional signature as early as possible. The budget should be formulated to include 20% overheads; please contact the Research Office with any budget questions.
Application Deadline: 10 January 2022, 5:00 pm EST
Further information
This RFA invites individual and collaborative applications that study and compare gene expression at the tissue and single-cell level. Such analyses could also include alternative splicing/isoform analysis, RNA editing, noncoding RNAs, epigenetic modifications and/or proteomics. It also welcomes studies of cellular neuroanatomy and immunohistochemical research on identified transmitter systems. For all studies, there is a nonexclusive emphasis on the cortex.
Priority will be given to those efforts that will lead to the most comprehensive characterization of the tissue and generate large shareable data sets. Consideration will also be given to those proposals making use of both the frozen and fixed tissue, preferably from the same donor, with attention given to the ways in which these data sets can be harmonized to facilitate sharing.
Duration: 24 months
Funding: max. $1’000’000
Eligibility: All applicants and key collaborators must hold a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree and have a faculty position or the equivalent at a college, university, medical school or other research facility. Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign nonprofit organizations; public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local government, and eligible agencies of the federal government. There are no citizenship or country requirements.
How to Apply:, The Simons Foundation uses an electronic grants submission process. All interested grant applicants must submit their applications online through proposalCENTRAL. To begin, log in as an applicant, navigate to the grant opportunities tab, select Simons Foundation from the ’Filter by Grant Maker’ drop-down list. You will then see the list of current Simons Foundation grant opportunities and will be able to select the Autism BrainNet program.
If EPFL will serve as your host institution, please use the following institution name in proposalCENTRAL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. A signature page is required for this submission; contact the Research Office for the institutional signature as early as possible. The budget should be formulated to include 20% overheads; please contact the Research Office with any budget questions.
Application Deadline: 10 January 2022, 5:00 pm EST
Further information
- More information about the program is available here.
- The application portal proposalCENTRAL can be found here.
- For any other questions, or to complete the signature page, please contact the Research Office.
Practical information
- General public
- Free