DoD Autism Research Program Idea Award

The ARP Idea Award supports high-impact, innovative research that advances the understanding of ASD and leads to improved quality of life for individuals with ASD. The Idea Award is designed to promote new ideas; therefore, proposals need not include preliminary data. Areas of Interest (Revised for FY09): While this award mechanism seeks applications from all areas of basic, translational, clinical, behavioral, and epidemiological ASD research, the FY09 ARP encourages applications that address critical needs of the autism community in the following areas: • Co-morbidity: (e.g., manifestations such as disorders [gastrointestinal, sleep, behavioral, speech/language], psychiatric, seizures, immune dysfunction, motor and sensory deficits, metabolic dysfunction, and effects of ASD on intellectual ability) • Predictors for Treatment Outcome: Identification of biomarkers, clinical characteristics, or other phenotypic markers that predict outcomes of a treatment (traditional or complementary and alternative), or populations that will or will not respond to a treatment.