SFARI staff will be presenting a number of posters about SFARI projects and resources at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2018 Annual Meeting in Rotterdam, Netherlands (May 9-12).
If you are attending the meeting, please stop-by and chat with us about these studies.
ANIMAL MODELS
Thursday, May 10, 2018 (11:30 am – 1:30 pm)
Towards preclinical validation of arbaclofen (R-baclofen) treatment for 16p11.2 deletion syndrome
FAMILY ISSUES AND STAKEHOLDER EXPERIENCES
Friday, May 11, 2018 (11:30 am – 1:30 pm)
Family meetings increase recruitment and engagement of genetically defined communities in Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP)
L. Grosvenor, S. Ganesan, A.M. Daniels, P. Feliciano, W. Chung
Lessons from recruitment and engagement of over 4,000 independent adults with autism into SPARK, an online research cohort
Saturday, May 12, 2018 (11:30 am – 1:30 pm)
SPARK Research Match: A platform to accelerate research by matching SPARK participants with new autism studies
V.J. Myers, B.E. Robertson, A.M. Daniels, P. Feliciano and W. Chung
The effectiveness of paid facebook advertising on recruitment and engagement in the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge (SPARK) research initiative
GENETICS
Friday, May 11, 2018 (5:30 pm – 7:00pm)
SPARK (Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge): A US cohort of 50,000 families to accelerate autism research
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Saturday, May 12, 2018 (11:30 am – 1:30 pm)
Demographic, diagnostic, and clinical characteristics of adult participants in the SPARK ASD cohort
SFARI Investigators and SFARI science staff will also be giving a number of oral presentations at INSAR 2018. Click here for more details.