Funder: Autism Science Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): July 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $7,500 USD; award term cannot exceed the parent grant’s IRB approval period
Summary: Supports additional work on funded autism studies and creative analysis of existing data to accelerate research findings.
Key Information: Projects must have prior IRB approval and leverage existing resources rather than fully fund a project.
Description
The Autism Science Foundation’s Suzanne Wright Memorial Research Accelerator Grants support work that expands the scope, goals, timeline, or outcomes of active autism research grants. Funding can help researchers speed progress, address a specific obstacle to scientific discovery, increase efficiency, or improve dissemination of findings. The program also supports creative analysis of existing data not previously analyzed to answer a question relevant to autism.
The grants are intended to enhance research already funded by other sources, including ASF, rather than fully support standalone projects. Proposals are welcome across all areas of autism research, with particular interest in profound autism. ASF specifically encourages researchers at universities that have not previously received its funding, including historically Black colleges and universities.
