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We welcome researchers from across the Johns Hopkins community and at the Kennedy Krieger Institute to become affiliated with our center and collaborate with center faculty. Affiliates must be full-time faculty working in autism/neurodevelopment-related fields. 

For pilot grant funding only, Bloomberg School faculty may apply as described below; some non-tenure-track Bloomberg School faculty may have to apply jointly, as the IRB generally requires only tenure-track faculty to be principal investigators. Kennedy Krieger affiliates must apply jointly with Bloomberg school faculty. 

To become an affiliate, please email Michelle Landrum Trice.  You can also join our listserv to stay updated on new opportunities.

Who is eligible to apply? 

Research project funding up to $50,000 is available. Applicants must be either (1) faculty with a primary Bloomberg School appointment; or (2) a current Wendy Klag Center affiliated faculty member. Consistent with the mission of the Wendy Klag Center, research proposals must have a population-based orientation, as opposed to a clinical focus.  Applications submitted by center affiliates who do not have primary appointments in the Bloomberg School should include collaborators from the school. Because of IRB rules, non-tenure-track affiliates within the Bloomberg school must apply jointly with a Bloomberg school partner who is allowed to be a principal investigator on the protocol. Alternatively, the non-tenure-track Bloomberg School applicant must already have approval from their department chair to seek an IRB exception to be PI.

The maximum duration for funding is 12 months.

What we fund 

Proposal reviewers are looking well-formulated, innovative research projects that are consistent with the center’s mission, particularly research showing the power of public health approaches in autism research. 

How to apply 

All applications require a project summary (30 lines of text), specific aims (1 page), research strategy (no more than 6 pages), an itemized budget, a detailed budget justification, and a NIH-format biographical sketch. 

The research strategy should include significance, innovation, approach, and any relevant preliminary data. The significance section should include how this work will bring something new to the field of autism and developmental disabilities. Proposals should be targeted to a broad audience so that reviewers from different backgrounds can understand what is planned and why.

If the proposed activity is part of a larger grant or existing funded work there should be an explicit explanation of the larger grant and how this proposal fits into it or addresses a scientific gap.

Completed applications should be compiled into one PDF document and emailed to mlandru5@jhu.edu. 

All awardees must agree to engage with the growing community of investigators focused on autism and developmental disabilities across the Bloomberg School, Johns Hopkins University, and the Kennedy Krieger Institute. This includes seminars, journal clubs, and symposia held throughout the year. 

Example of a 2022 funded faculty project  

Johnathon Ehsani, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, with Stewart Mostofsky, MD, and Mary Beth Nebel, PhD, (both of the Kennedy Krieger Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research), and Theresa Chirles, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health Policy and Management, are investigating “Identifying Challenges with Learning to Drive in ASD Pilot Study: Advancing Understanding of the Role of Visual Motor Integration.”