2025 Data Analysis, Request for Applications

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$300,000 USD Application Available

July 1, 2025 Informational Zoom Meeting

July 23, 2025 Application Deadline

September 4, 2025 Award Notification

January 2026 Award Start Dates

March 1, April 1, or May 1, 2026 Scientific Inquiries

sciencerfa@simonsfoundation.org Administrative Inquiries

sfarigrants@simonsfoundation.org SFARI Data and Biospecimen Repository

sdbr@simonsfoundation.org Technical Assistance

samsupport@simonsfoundation.org Office Hours

Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern Time

The Simons Foundation offices will be closed on July 4, August 29 and September 1, 2025.

$300,000 USD Application Available

July 1, 2025 Informational Zoom Meeting

July 23, 2025 Application Deadline

September 4, 2025 Award Notification

January 2026 Award Start Dates

March 1, April 1, or May 1, 2026 Scientific Inquiries

sciencerfa@simonsfoundation.org Administrative Inquiries

sfarigrants@simonsfoundation.org SFARI Data and Biospecimen Repository

sdbr@simonsfoundation.org Technical Assistance

samsupport@simonsfoundation.org Office Hours

Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern Time

The Simons Foundation offices will be closed on July 4, August 29 and September 1, 2025. SFARI Mission

The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to advance the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Background & Objective

Advancing open science and developing research-ready resources that accelerate autism research are central components of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)’s mission. SFARI has generated a wealth of genomic and phenotypic data across several autism and related neurodevelopmental disorder cohorts and has also supported, through external grants, the generation of additional large datasets. In parallel, many other data resources have emerged. While such datasets have already been used to ask important questions relevant to autism, many opportunities for additional analyses and modeling remain, should scientists have the time and resources to invest in these directions. We are aware that further analyses of existing datasets are often not incentivized to the same degree as collection of new data.

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 these previously collected data. Applications should leverage existing publicly accessible datasets to ask new questions and extract new knowledge. 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. Proposed questions should be relevant to SFARI’s mission. Scientific Scope and Priorities

We will fund applications that use previously collected data that are publicly available, either by open or controlled access, and are relevant to the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. We are open to the use of a range of different data types (e.g., genomic, transcriptomic, electrophysiological, brain imaging, phenotypic, epidemiological); investigators should justify their choice and the relevance to SFARI’s mission. This RFA will not fund new data collection.

Applicants must have access to or permission to access the data resources at the time of application. Priority will be given to SFARI-funded datasets, including SPARK, Simons Searchlight, Autism Inpatient Collection, Simons Sleep Project and Simons Simplex Collection, as well as to other datasets funded by SFARI grants (see a partial list here).

We are interested in projects that are feasible for the investigator team to complete within the duration of the award period. We encourage applicants to explore datasets from which they have not already published and to include co-investigators, consultants or letters of support from data…

Topic areas: General and Cross-cutting R&D, Mathematics and Statistics, Life Sciences and Health.

Funding amount

This grant provides Varies in funding.

Deadline

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; there is no single fixed deadline.

Who can apply

This opportunity is open to the following applicant types:

• Not specified by the program.

Eligibility

The program did not publish a separate eligibility statement. See the official opportunity page for the full eligibility criteria.

Agency

2025 Data Analysis, Request for Applications is administered by Simons Foundation (Simons), listed via Simons Foundation.