Request for Applications:
2024 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship in Autism Spectrum Disorders
RFA Released: February 1, 2024
Applications Due: February 29, 2024 5:00PM ET
Notification of Awards: late March 2024
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.
Applicants will create and submit proposals using the Reviewr submission management platform. Go to https://my.reviewr.com/site/undergradsummer_2024 to create a Reviewr account (or log in to an existing account), and continue to the online application form.
The following students were selected for summer 2023 funding:
| Vidya Gadikota | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Dr. Laura Klinger |
| Kaleb Phelps | University of South Carolina | Dr. Jessica Bradshaw |
| Olivia Wong | Child Mind Institute | Dr. Adriana Di Martino |