National Database for Autism Research

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National Database for Autism Research

Founded	2006
Founder	National Institutes of Health
Headquarters	Rockville, Maryland
Key people	Greg Farber, Ph.D. (Director) Dan Hall (Manager) Brian Koser (Operations Manager) Gretchen Navidi (Principal Analyst, Grants Management) Svetlana Novikova, Ph.D. (Principal Analyst, Genomics) Anne Sperling, Ph.D. (Health Science Policy Analyst)
Website	ndar.nih.gov

The National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) is a secure research data repository promoting scientific data sharing and collaboration among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) investigators. The project was launched in 2006 as a joint effort between five institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH): the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the Center for Information Technology (CIT). The goal of NDAR is to provide a shared common platform for data collection, retrieval, and archiving to accelerate the advancement of research on autism spectrum disorders. The largest repository of its kind, NDAR makes available data at all levels of biological and behavioral organization for all data types. As of November 2013, data from over 90,000 research participants are available to qualified investigators through the NDAR portal. Summary information about the available data is accessible through the NDAR public website.