Post-Doctoral S.O.S. Grant Program
A support mechanism for autism postdoctoral researchers, created in response to disruption in the research funding climate. Listed alongside ASF's Suzanne Wright Research Accelerator Awards, profound-autism pilot grants and pre-doctoral fellowships.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award amount appears on ASF's grants listing page for any of the four programmes shown.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jul, OctPublished deadline: 2026-10-15 — 61 days awayRFA released July 2026; applications due 15 October 2026; notification March 2027. Other ASF programmes on the same page run on their own annual cycles (Suzanne Wright Accelerator, profound-autism pilots and pre-doctoral fellowships, undergraduate summer awards).
- Who can apply
- Postdoctoral
- Eligibility
- Restricted to postdoctoral researchers working in autism research. The listing page states career stage but not citizenship or institution type; those conditions appear in the released RFA.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- autism · postdoctoral support · neurodevelopmental disability
- Apply at
- https://autismsciencefoundation.org/grants-awards-fellowships/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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