Leadership · governance · contact

About

The Pathogenetic Triad Research Programme is an open scientific initiative established to formalize, critically test, and steward the framework over time.

Founder and Scientific Director

Darko Sarovic

MD · PhD · BA · MSc

Darko Sarovic is a physician-scientist and consultant radiologist with a Master’s degree in psychology whose research spans neurodevelopment, autism, neurophysiology, and social interaction.

He introduced the general Pathogenetic Triad framework in 2019 and its autism-specific formulation in 2021. He founded the Research Programme to convert the framework into an explicit, versioned, and independently testable scientific system.

As Founder and Scientific Director, he is responsible for scientific direction and stewardship of the canonical records. Individual studies may have separate principal investigators, teams, institutions, and governance.

Governance

Scientific leadership without sole ownership of the evidence.

The founder’s role establishes responsibility for the framework and its revision history. Evidence appraisal, replication, and criticism must remain open to independent researchers and appropriately constituted clinical, methods, and community input.

Named collaborators, advisers, study sites, and organizations will be added after their roles and wording are agreed.

Contact

Start a scientific conversation.

Enquiries about research collaboration, critical testing, measurement, replication, programme participation, or scientific communication are welcome and encouraged.

This form must not be used to send identifiable health information or request individual clinical advice.

The name, email address, and message you provide will be used only to review and respond to the enquiry. Submission records will be retained only as long as needed for that purpose.