Health/Medical Research

Grants will be awarded in support of programs that improve the delivery of health care to adult consumers with developmental disabilities and include at least one of the following: improve health practitioner competency through education and/or training programs; address the current inadequate reimbursement systems; advance innovations in formal care coordination; enhance public awareness regarding the inadequacies of developmentally disabled care to advance sy

Applications are invited for projects that examine any aspect of nephrology education and teaching, either pre-doctoral or post-doctoral. Examples of proposed projects may include but are not limited to curricular reform, innovations in education, new education methods, evaluation of new assessment tools for competency-based learning and assessment, professional development, or professionalism.

Grants will be awarded in support of promising young researchers to advance the understanding of complications and therapeutic strategies in the context of hematologic malignancies. Various aspects may be covered, including but not limited to diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, transplant immunology, stem cell transplantation complications, donor selection, or cell manufacturing.

Grants will be awarded in support of research that provides new information and contributes to the understanding of the basic etiology and pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis. Priority will be given to projects that propose a better understanding of the mechanisms behind disease pathophysiology and developing strategies to prevent or treat CF.

Applications are invited to grow the global base of movement disorder specialists by training movement disorder clinician-researchers who can provide expert care and lead scientific advances.

Grants will be awarded in support of research projects that aim to characterize, develop objective methods to assess, or evaluate interventions for misophonia. Projects should display interdisciplinary collaboration, novelty, creativity, and promise in seeking innovative approaches to understand, diagnose, and/or treat misophonia.

Applications are invited from physicians who aim to gain HIV clinical experience by working with medically underserved patient populations.

Applications are invited for the Innovation Award in support of highly promising investigators with stellar track records of accomplishment and the potential to advance the field of lung disease science. 

Grants will be awarded to early-career investigators with the potential to expand understanding of transplant science/immunobiology and/or treatment of transplant recipients. The program supports basic, clinical, or translational science research on any research topic related to solid organ transplant. The following research priorities apply:

Grants will be awarded to physician-scientists in support of career development and training of physician-scientists in myocarditis research.  Research Grants are intended to offer seed funding to support the early stages of long-term research, from the investigation of an initial hypothesis to the collection of preliminary data.