The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is pleased to announce a new data release from Simons Searchlight aimed at improving the scientific understanding of autism.

Simons Searchlight offers open-source data and tools to researchers worldwide who study autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions.

Last spring, members of the Simons Foundation’s Fellows-to-Faculty program met for the 2025 meeting to share their latest findings and make connections.

Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty alumnus Tomasz Nowakowski spoke with the foundation about his experiences with the program.

Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty Fellow Gabriela Rosenblau spoke with the foundation about her experiences with the fellowship.

The Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division is now accepting applications for the next class of its Fellows-to-Faculty Award program. This program supports talented early career scientists by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions.

A new study finds that mice with variants in autism-associated genes have difficulty flexibly updating their expectations. The mice relied more on frontal brain areas associated with cognition and reasoning rather than sensory-processing brain regions to process prior information about the world. The results provide new insights into the neurobiology of autism.

The Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025 Autism and Neuroscience Conferences and Courses Awards. This year the awards provide financial support for scientific conferences or courses that align with the scientific missions of the division’s Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) and Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB).