3-160 - Research and Funding Opportunities in Autism and Other Developmental Psychopathology Conditions: Using Big Data Resources

Session Type: Federal Agency Symposium

Integrative Statement

This session will educate attendees on the NIH’s direction in autism research from the perspective of program officers with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Discussion will focus on the research opportunities available at these institutions with a focus on data sharing and the opportunities made available through a progressive data-sharing regimen supported by the National Database for Autism Research (NDAR). Today, 77,000 research participants across hundreds of cognitive, diagnostic and clinical measures are now shared. Secured in the Amazon cloud, large datasets from over 8,000 exome sequences, 2,000 structural images exists (see NDAR Query) and event based fMRI, EEG, and eye tracking experiments make NDAR one of the largest data repositories in the neurosciences. Funding opportunities for junior investigators interested in performing secondary analysis on data from this repository will be discussed. Recently, the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoCdb) and Clinical Trials (NDCT) initiatives have adopted the same data-sharing platform. As data from other mental health research domains (ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorders) are shared, these platforms will offer new and emerging opportunities that previously could not have been considered.

Sub Unit

• SRCD Biennial Meeting

Chairs

• Dan Hall, National Institutes of Health

• Svetlana Novikova, NIH

Individual Presentations

• Trends and Opportunities in Autism Research - Presenting Author: Alice Kau, NICHD

• National Database for Autism Research, NIMH Research Domains Database, National Database for Clinical Trials in Mental Health - Presenting Author: Dan Hall, National Institutes of Health

• Funding Opportunities for Secondary Analysis in Research Domain Criteria at the NIMH - Presenting Author: Lisa Gilotty