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This program seeks applications from all areas of basic and preclinical research, and strongly encourages applications that address the critical needs of the ASD community in the following areas (listed alphabetically):
- Assessment of novel therapeutics using valid preclinical models
- Community supported and participatory research interventions
- Create tools and strategies to increase the speed with which evidence-based practices are deployed in community-based settings
- Cultural, socioeconomic, and gender factors in diagnosis, treatment efficacy, delivery, and access to services
- Development of health care provider-focused training or tools to improve health care delivery for individuals with ASD across the life span and the continuum of care (i.e., primary care, urgent/emergent care, and disaster relief)
- Environmental risk factors
- Factors impacting quality of life for current and former military families.
- Factors promoting success in key transitions to independence for individuals living with ASD
- Gender identity and sexual health, including puberty and sexual education for autistic individuals
- Improve diagnosis and access to services across the life span
- Interventions to support ASD adults, including transition to adulthood, mid-life, and late-life needs
- Long-term treatment outcomes from previous clinical trials for ASD core symptoms or to alleviate co-occurring conditions
- Mechanisms of heterogeneous clinical expression of ASD
- Mechanisms underlying sex differences (i.e., prevalence, biological mechanisms, phenotypic expression, core and comorbid syndrome expression and outcomes, developmental trajectories, diagnosis, and treatment response)
- Mechanisms underlying conditions co-occurring with ASD (e.g., pain, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal issues, inflammation, aggression, depression, anxiety, attention deficit, and seizures)
- Mental health issues (such as grief, masking, suicide risk, trauma, etc.) or disorders in autistic individuals
- Tests of implementation strategies to increase use of evidence-based practices
- Uncovering new advances using a strength-based model
- Understanding heterogeneity in treatment response, including identification of psychosocial or biological factors that (1) impact treatment outcomes or (2) can be used to prospectively identify treatments that are most likely to benefit particular subgroups of individuals
- Understanding key factors to support ASD adults, including transition to adulthood
- Understanding physical health and related issues in aging autistic adults, including cardiovascular issues, joint pain, asthma, obesity, etc
It is expected that four awards will be granted.
Funding: $550,000 total
Duration: 3 years
Research Authority due date: 9.5.24
Pre application (required) due date: 16.5.24
Full application due date: 15.8.24
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