Lung Disease Grants

Scholarships to 12th Annual American College of Chest Physicians Community Asthma and COPD Coalitions Symposium

Limited scholarships are available. Please complete the Scholarship Application form, and submit it by fax ([847] 498-5460) or e-mail to Beth Corey. The deadline for submitting applications is August 13, 2010.

Contact Beth at (847) 498-8366 or bcorey@chestnet.org with any questions.

American College of Chest Physicians
3300 Dundee Road,
Northbrook, IL 60062
Fax: (847) 498-5460
 

National Lung Cancer Partnership 2011 Young Investigator Research Grant Request for Applications

National Lung Cancer Partnership is currently supporting a Young Investigator Research Grant for junior clinical and basic investigators

Applications deadline September 10, 2010

Purpose of Grant
The purpose of this Grant Program is to drive research forward that will increase understanding of lung cancer risk, biology, and response to treatment, while ensuring that young investigators have the resources needed for them to succeed as lung cancer researchers. For 2010, multiple grants are available. Research that will aid in prevention, detection, diagnosis, screening, treatment, and symptom management of lung cancer is sought.

The Young Investigator Research Grant is intended as seed money for young investigators to carry out promising novel research in any facet of lung cancer. Applications pertaining to sex differences in lung cancer are particularly encouraged. The Grant will be awarded for one or two years, for up to $50,000 direct expenses per year ($100,000 maximum over 2 years). The Grant is designed to be used primarily for research support, including technical assistance, supplies, reagents, and equipment. An additional 8% of the award amount may be requested to cover indirect costs or institutional overhead to the Grant recipient’s institution.

Applications will be judged on the quality of the applicant’s research, feasibility of the Career Development Plan, and the resources and environment available to the applicant, including the ability of the primary mentor to provide appropriate guidance and protected time during the Grant period.

Eligibility
1. At the time of application, an applicant must hold a doctoral degree (MD, PhD, DO, DrPH,
or equivalent), and be a post-doctoral fellow or be in the first 5 years of a faculty appointment at a not-for-profit institution. Pre-doctoral fellows are not eligible for the Young
Investigator Research Grant.
2. Applications will only be accepted from individuals involved in lung cancer research. Applications addressing sex differences in lung cancer are especially encouraged.
3. Applications will be accepted from individuals at US and Canadian sponsoring institutions. The applicant need not be a citizen of either country. If the applicant is not a US or Canadian citizen, verification of work visa must be provided with the application.
4. There must be a Primary Mentor at the applicant’s institution who will oversee the applicant’s Career Development Plan. The Primary Mentor may only support one applicant.
5. The Young Investigator Research Grant recipient must spend a minimum of 50 percent of her/his time in lung cancer research during the grant period. This time should be free from major non-research focused patient care, teaching, administrative, or other responsibilities.
6. Young Investigator Research Grant recipients may hold any other fellowship, award, or grant during the time of the award.
7. Young Investigator Research Grant recipients and their primary mentor may not have knowingly received any research funding from the tobacco industry, its parent companies, or subsidiaries, within the last 5 years.
8. Applications involving animals must receive approval from the institution’s Animal Care and Use Committee before award commencement.
9. Applications involving human participants must receive approval from the local Institutional Review Board before award commencement.
10. National Lung Cancer Partnership will not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, age or any other factor irrelevant to the quality of the application.

National Lung Cancer Partnership
222 N. Midvale Blvd., Suite 6
Madison, WI 53705

Phone: 608.233.7905
Fax: 608.233.7893

E-mail: info@NationalLungCancerPartnership.org
www.NationalLungCancerPartnership.org

American Lung Association Grant Offerings

The following awards will be offered as a part of the 2011-2012 American Lung Association Nationwide Awards and Grants Portfolio:

Important Dates
Applications Open: June 21, 2010
Letter of Intent for Lung Cancer Discovery Award*: July 23, 2010
Application Deadline: October 21, 2010

*This is the only American Lung Association Grant that requires a LOI

I. TRAINING AWARDS
Lung Health Dissertation Grant (1 grant available): $21,000/yr. Pre-doctoral support for nurses or students with an academic career focused on the various disciplines of social science. Research areas of particular interest are: psychosocial, behavioral, health services, health policy, epidemiological, biostatistical and educational matters related to lung disease.

Senior Research Training Fellowship (8-10 grants available): $32,500/yr. Post-doctoral support for MDs and/or PhDs receiving further academic training as scientific investigators. Research areas of particular interest are: adult pulmonary medicine, pediatric pulmonary medicine and lung biology.

II. INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR AWARDS
Biomedical Research Grant (10-12 grants available): $40,000/yr. Provides seed monies for junior investigators researching the mechanisms of lung disease and general lung biology.

Dalsemer Research Grant (1 grant available): $40,000/yr. Provides seed monies for junior investigators researching interstitial lung disease.

Clinical Patient Care Research Grant (1-2 grants available): $40,000/yr. Provides seed monies for junior investigators working on traditional clinical studies examining methods of improving patient care and/or treatment for lung disease.

Social-Behavioral Research Grant: (1-2 grants available): $40,000/yr. Provides seed monies for junior investigators working on epidemiological and behavioral studies examining risk factors affecting lung health. This grant includes studies concerning the ethical, legal and economic aspects of health services and policies.

DeSousa Award (1 grant available): $100,000/yr. Supports investigators, at any level of research experience, focusing on bronchiectasis, infection with atypical Mycobacteria, particularly Mycobacterium Avium, and/or infection with Nocardia species.

Lung Cancer Discovery Award (1 grant available): $100,000/yr. Supports investigators, at any level of research experience, focusing on novel treatments or a cure for lung cancer.
A Letter of Intent is required for this award.

Additional grant opportunities may become available at a later date.

American Lung Association
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20004

T: 202 785 3355
F: 202 452 1805
E: info@lungusa.org

American Asthma Foundation Research Program

Don't know anything about asthma? Perfect!

Next application deadline is February 9, 2011

We are looking for highly original thinking from investigators willing to step away from their current areas of research to tackle the asthma epidemic. We want you to translate your know-how and skills into asthma research.

Awards will be given to investigators at two levels:

Senior Investigator Award $750,000 ($250,000 per year for three years)
Early Excellence Award $450,000 ($150,000 per year for three years)

Eligible countries: United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Israel, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Review criteria:
Innovation: cutting-edge research, new-to-the-field thinking
Potential for new insights into the causes and treatments for asthma
Importance, originality and clarity of the proposed research
Productivity and ingenuity of the investigator

The American Asthma Foundation has several ways to be contacted.

BY PHONE:
415-404-3420

BY EMAIL:
info@americanasthma.org

BY MAIL:
4 Embarcadero Center, Suite 3150
San Francisco, California 94111

RESEARCH PROGRAM MANAGER:
Valerie Dougherty vdougherty@americanasthma.org

Conference Student Scholarships: Immunity in the Respiratory Tract: Challenges of the Lung Environment

Scholarship Deadline: October 26, 2010 (Midnight US Mountain Standard Time)

Recently, there has been an explosion in information about the regulation of inflammation, immunity, and immunopathology in the lung. Despite these advances, we still have only a rudimentary understanding of how these responses relate to the lung environment or how and why they translate into beneficial or detrimental effects, health or disease. The goals of this meeting are to (i) bring together allergists, immunologists, microbiologists and vaccinologists to discuss pulmonary inflammation and immunity in the context of lung biology and (ii) to build on this understanding to develop improved vaccines and therapeutic interventions for inflammatory conditions and infectious diseases that affect the lungs. Expert talks in plenary sessions will present the latest research in the field. Workshops and additional talks will add late-breaking cutting-edge results. The meeting will considerably advance our understanding of respiratory immunity.

Keystone Symposia is offering scholarships to students and post-docs this conference season. These scholarships, of up to $1000 each, are to be used to help defray the expenses associated with conference attendance, including air (on a U.S. air carrier), ground transportation and lodging costs. Receipts will be required to receive reimbursement.

Abstracts submitted for poster presentation will be used as the basis for awarding the scholarships. Conference organizers will select the scholarship recipients based on the quality of science of the abstract and the relevance of the abstract to the conference topic. Only one application per abstract is accepted.

Keystone Symposia
221 Summit Place #272
PO Box 1630
Silverthorne, CO 80498
www.keystonesymposia.org

Financial Assistance / Student Scholarships
Phone: +1 (800) 253-0685 or
Ksenia Shambarger - +1 (970) 262-1230 extension 140
Fax: +1 (970) 262-0311

Conference Student Scholarships: Lung Development and Repair

Scholarship Deadline: October 6, 2010 (Midnight US Mountain Standard Time)

The lung is a complex three-dimensional organ. Its vital functions depend upon the initial establishment and maintenance of dynamic interactions between multiple tissue types. These include the highly branched system of airway tubes and terminal alveolar sacs, blood and lymphatic vessels, nerves, smooth muscle and fibroblasts, and cells of the immune system. Defects in these interactions underlie many serious respiratory disorders, both in the neonate and adult. This meeting will highlight recent advances in our understanding of the molecular and cellular processes driving the development of the lung and how its organization is maintained over the long term in the adult, as well as how these mechanisms are perturbed in disease. New ideas and approaches will be catalyzed by examples from other organ systems. The meeting will also address a major goal in lung biology - to identify the progenitor cells that mediate tissue regeneration and repair after damage by environmental factors or disease.

Keystone Symposia is offering scholarships to students and post-docs this conference season. These scholarships, of up to $1000 each, are to be used to help defray the expenses associated with conference attendance, including air (on a U.S. air carrier), ground transportation and lodging costs. Receipts will be required to receive reimbursement.

Abstracts submitted for poster presentation will be used as the basis for awarding the scholarships. Conference organizers will select the scholarship recipients based on the quality of science of the abstract and the relevance of the abstract to the conference topic. Only one application per abstract is accepted.

Keystone Symposia
221 Summit Place #272
PO Box 1630
Silverthorne, CO 80498
www.keystonesymposia.org

Financial Assistance / Student Scholarships
Phone: +1 (800) 253-0685 or
Ksenia Shambarger - +1 (970) 262-1230 extension 140
Fax: +1 (970) 262-0311

Conference Student Scholarships: Tuberculosis: Immunology, Cell Biology and Novel Vaccination Strategies

Scholarship Deadline: September 20, 2010 (Midnight US Mountain Standard Time)

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global disease, worsened by its dangerous synergy with HIV/AIDS and increasing incidences of multi-drug and extensively-drug-resistant strains. More aggressive strains such as the East-Asian/Beijing genotype family are conquering the globe and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) increasingly occurs in HIV/M. tuberculosis co-infected individuals under antiretroviral therapy. To reverse this negative trend, increased efforts are needed within academia and industry. Recently, targeted activities have started to translate basic findings into the formulation of drug, vaccine and diagnostic candidates that are entering field trials. However, these efforts are stymied by enormous gaps in our knowledge about specific mechanisms that underlie the relationship between host, pathogen and environment in TB. This Keystone Symposium on TB will focus on these relationships covering basic and clinical research. Topics include the molecular genetics and biochemistry of the pathogen with emphasis on unique lineage and growth state-specific features and the immunology and molecular genetics of the host during latency, reactivation and active disease. Because the outcomes of TB are influenced by genetic, epigenetic and environmental influences on both host and pathogen, the meeting will highlight research on host-pathogen crosstalk at the basic cellular and molecular level as well as human studies that determine the basis of susceptibility to and severity of tuberculosis. Finally, the most recent results on clinical trials of drug and vaccine candidates will be discussed in depth. It is hoped that this meeting will provide not only deeper insights into the complex crosstalk between host and pathogen, but also information on novel measures for TB control including pre- and post-exposure vaccination strategies, combat of extensively drug-resistant strains and novel therapeutic stratagems to avoid IRIS.

Keystone Symposia is offering scholarships to students and post-docs this conference season. These scholarships, of up to $1000 each, are to be used to help defray the expenses associated with conference attendance, including air (on a U.S. air carrier), ground transportation and lodging costs. Receipts will be required to receive reimbursement.

Abstracts submitted for poster presentation will be used as the basis for awarding the scholarships. Conference organizers will select the scholarship recipients based on the quality of science of the abstract and the relevance of the abstract to the conference topic. Only one application per abstract is accepted.

Keystone Symposia
221 Summit Place #272
PO Box 1630
Silverthorne, CO 80498
www.keystonesymposia.org

Financial Assistance / Student Scholarships
Phone: +1 (800) 253-0685 or
Ksenia Shambarger - +1 (970) 262-1230 extension 140
Fax: +1 (970) 262-0311

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Clinical Fellowships--1st & 2nd Yr Fellowships

Application Deadline for 1st & 2nd Yr Fellowships: First Wednesday of October
Application Deadline for 3rd, 4th & 5th Yr Fellowships: First Wednesday of September

The intent of this award is to encourage specialized training early in a physician’s career and to prepare candidates for careers in academic medicine. Training must take place in a CF Foundation-accredited care center and must encompass diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, comprehensive care and CF-related research. Applicants must be eligible for Board certification in pediatrics or internal medicine by the time the fellowship begins.

Awards are $47,600 (first year) and $49,250 (second year) for stipend. Also, fellowships are available for additional basic and/or clinical research training in the third, fourth, and fifth years to qualified applicants. Recipients are expected to be subspecialty Board eligible at the completion of the program.

Applicants and sponsors must submit a proposal of the research studies to be undertaken and other specialized training that will be offered during this third year. Up to $68,250 may be awarded: $58,250 for stipend and $10,000 for research costs (indirect costs not allowed).

Recipients who do not enter a career of academic medicine will be subject to payback provisions. U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is required.

Please direct inquiries to:

Grants and Contracts Office
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
6931 Arlington Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
(800) FIGHT CF
(301) 951-4422
grants@cff.org

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Application Deadline: First Wednesday of September

These awards are offered to M.D.s, Ph.D.s, and M.D./Ph.D.s interested in conducting basic or clinical research related to cystic fibrosis. Awards are offered through the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s network of research centers, or through individual applications submitted to the Foundation.

Stipends are $39,000 (first year), $40,100 (second year), and $42,300 (optional third year). Research expenses of $3,500 per year are available, as well. (Indirect costs not allowed.) U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is required.

Please direct inquiries to:

Grants and Contracts Office
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
6931 Arlington Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
(800) FIGHT CF
(301) 951-4422
grants@cff.org

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Harry Shwachman Clinical Investigator Award

Appication Deadline: First Wednesday of September

Application must be submitted electronically at Proposal Central by 5:00 pm (EDT).

This three-year award provides the opportunity for clinically-trained physicians to develop into independent biomedical research investigators who are actively involved in CF-related areas. It is also intended to facilitate the transition from postdoctoral training to a career in academic medicine.

Support is available for up to $76,000 per year plus $15,000 for supplies. (Indirect costs are not allowed.) U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is required.

Please direct inquiries to:

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Grants and Contracts Office
6931 Arlington Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
(800) FIGHT CF
(301) 951-4422
grants@cff.org