The Autism Research Training (ART) Program is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (STIHR), with supplemental funding from the Sinneave Family Foundation for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows doing research in autism. Its goal is to recruit and train outstanding researchers in the field of autism, in disciplines such as genetics, brain imaging, epidemiology, neurology, psychiatry, psychology and others. The ART Program is open to applicants with a solid academic disciplinary background in health care, science, social sciences, or humanities.

Applicants must be registered at a Canadian university, where they complete their core training and conduct their research, under the supervision of a Program Supervisor. Fellowship funding, as well as a travel stipend (the program is based out of McGill University), are provided.

ART Program training activities include participation to a 5-day intensive Summer School Program, a biennial Winter Institute, an international guest speaker event at IMFAR, and knowledge translation and dissemination activities.