Category: News

The 2023-2024 Annual Report is available by clicking here.

The results of the April 2024 Grants Competition are available here.

Congratulations to our new Officers for 2024-2025

President – Richard R. Jones

Vice-President – John Lark

Secretary – Mark Durant

Treasurer – James Vasko

The Winter 2024 Clarion Magazine is now available.

The Grant Application Forms for the April 30, 2024 deadline are now available from the Research Grants page.

The Grant Application Form and Grant Application Guide for the April 30, 2024 application deadline are now available from the Research Grants page.

The results of the April 2023 Grants Competition are available here.

The 2022-2023 Annual Report is available by clicking here.

We would like to congratulate Dr. Roberto Araya, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of Montreal on the recent publication in the January 2. 2023 issue of the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article entitled Altered integration of excitatory inputs onto the basal dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome. This work funded in part by the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation shows how in Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common cause of autism, sensory signals from the outside world are integrated differently, causing them to be underrepresented by cortical pyramidal neurons in the brain. This phenomenon could provide important clues to the underlying cause of the symptoms of this syndrome. The research team’s work not only provides insight into the mechanism at the cellular level, but also opens the door to new targets for therapeutic strategies.

August 2020 – Congratulations to Dr. Baptiste Lacoste on the recent publication in Nature Neuroscience – in part, funded by a grant from the Foundation. Dr. Lacoste’s team has undertaken the first-ever in-depth study of vasculature in the autistic brain. The study lays out several lines of novel evidence that strongly implicate defects in endothelial cells — the lining of blood vessels — in autism.