Autism Speaks Research
All year long, Autism Speaks raises funds to support autism research. We hold walks, special events, and cultivate major giving opportunities for individuals as well as corporations and foundations all to help accelerate the pace of autism research. We are proud to be putting your hard earned dollars to work to move forward in finding a cure for autism.
Portfolios
In any disease or disorder there are four basic questions that can be investigated to improve its understanding: What causes it? (Etiology); What is it? (Biology); How do you know if someone has it? (Diagnosis); and most importantly, How do we make it better? (Treatment). Autism demands answers for each of these questions. All are priorities. Autism Speaks has garnered its resources and organized its research program to pursue each of these avenues simultaneously. Our four science program portfolios have been designed to encompass these priorities and find answers to each of these critical questions. Although we have organized our program into four components, progress in any of these areas will help inform advances in each of the others.
Through our grants (scientist-initiated requests for funding) and initiatives (targeted projects designed by Autism Speaks), we are able to support research designed to answer the questions poised in each of the four portfolios. For further information about the Autism Speaks' Grant Program or the Autism Speaks' Initiatives click on the links below or on the tabs up above.
Grant Program
Autism speaks stimulates autism research primarily in two ways. Perhaps the most well-known is funding scientist-initiated grants: scientists with innovative and provocative ideas apply to Autism Speaks in response to open calls for proposals. These grant proposals are read by distinguished members of our scientific advisory boards and scored for their scientific merit. The final funding recommendations are then completed by the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) , which makes its decisions by prioritizing the best-ranked grants and discussing their relevance to the mission of Autism Speaks. Because our science boards cannot ever predict what proposals will be submitted by researchers, each round of funded grants is different from the last, and in this way we endure diversity and stimulation of creative ideas in all research disciplines.
Initiatives
The second way Autism Speaks uses your donations is through Autism Speaks-organized initiatives. As important as individual grants, initiative projects give Autism Speaks a much more proactive role in promoting specific research. The most common initiative is organizing scientific research meetings, which stimulate the field by bringing innovative thinking to the forefront and forcing the exchange of ideas much faster than it would normally occur. Other Autism Speaks initiatives include the formation of research resources, which are open-access assets that benefit the entire research community (including AGRE, ATP, IAN), and collaborative research projects between multiple scientists that leverage each others' technical and intellectual expertise (such as AGP and the Baby Sibs Research Consortium). All of our initiatives push scientists in the field to work faster and more cohesively.
Portfolios
In any disease or disorder there are four basic questions that can be investigated to improve its understanding: What causes it? (Etiology); What is it? (Biology); How do you know if someone has it? (Diagnosis); and most importantly, How do we make it better? (Treatment). Autism demands answers for each of these questions. All are priorities. Autism Speaks has garnered its resources and organized its research program to pursue each of these avenues simultaneously. Our four science program portfolios have been designed to encompass these priorities and find answers to each of these critical questions. Although we have organized our program into four components, progress in any of these areas will help inform advances in each of the others.
Through our grants (scientist-initiated requests for funding) and initiatives (targeted projects designed by Autism Speaks), we are able to support research designed to answer the questions poised in each of the four portfolios. For further information about the Autism Speaks' Grant Program or the Autism Speaks' Initiatives click on the links below or on the tabs up above.
Grant Program
Autism speaks stimulates autism research primarily in two ways. Perhaps the most well-known is funding scientist-initiated grants: scientists with innovative and provocative ideas apply to Autism Speaks in response to open calls for proposals. These grant proposals are read by distinguished members of our scientific advisory boards and scored for their scientific merit. The final funding recommendations are then completed by the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) , which makes its decisions by prioritizing the best-ranked grants and discussing their relevance to the mission of Autism Speaks. Because our science boards cannot ever predict what proposals will be submitted by researchers, each round of funded grants is different from the last, and in this way we endure diversity and stimulation of creative ideas in all research disciplines.
Initiatives
The second way Autism Speaks uses your donations is through Autism Speaks-organized initiatives. As important as individual grants, initiative projects give Autism Speaks a much more proactive role in promoting specific research. The most common initiative is organizing scientific research meetings, which stimulate the field by bringing innovative thinking to the forefront and forcing the exchange of ideas much faster than it would normally occur. Other Autism Speaks initiatives include the formation of research resources, which are open-access assets that benefit the entire research community (including AGRE, ATP, IAN), and collaborative research projects between multiple scientists that leverage each others' technical and intellectual expertise (such as AGP and the Baby Sibs Research Consortium). All of our initiatives push scientists in the field to work faster and more cohesively.
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