Request for Applications:
2025 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship in Autism Spectrum Disorders
RFA Released: February 3, 2025
Applications Due: March 2, 2025 5:00PM ET
Notification of Awards: late March 2025
The Autism Science Foundation invites applications from highly qualified undergraduates interested in pursuing basic and clinical research relevant to autism spectrum disorders during the summer.
The proposed research must be scientifically linked to autism. Autism Science Foundation will consider all areas of related basic and clinical research including but not limited to: human behavior across the lifespan (language, learning, communication, social function, epilepsy, sleep, self-injurious behavior, catatonia), neurobiology (anatomy, development, neuro-imaging), pharmacology, neuropathology, human genetics, genomics, epigenetics, epigenomics, immunology, molecular and cellular mechanisms, studies employing model organisms and systems, and studies of treatment, service delivery, policy and employment. We encourage studies that focus on profound autism and/or include participants with profound autism. Priority will be given to students from underrepresented groups OR to studies that focus on understanding and narrowing the diagnosis and services gap across different races, ethnicities or socioeconomic status levels. All applicants will be asked about their race and ethnicity in the application process.
The following students were selected for summer 2024 funding:
| Wasayef Bsharat | Montclair State University | Dr. Erin Kang |
| Chrisitan Grey | Oklahoma State University | Dr. Emily Abel |
| Yichi Zhang | Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities | Dr. Mark Shen |