Applications for New Investigator Scleroderma Research

The Scleroderma Foundation is accepting applications for its New Investigator Grant Program, which supports new investigators who hold faculty or equivalent positions and who wish to pursue a career in research related to scleroderma. 

Grants of up to $50,000 per year for up to three years will support promising research that is likely to lead to individual research project grants. Appropriate research areas may include the following as they relate to scleroderma: scleroderma-related lung disease, pediatric scleroderma, vascular manifestations, studies of animal models, therapeutic modalities, mechanisms of end-organ damage, immunologic studies, endothelial cell biology, fibroblast biology, models and markers of gender and genetic factors, cell signaling, epidemiology studies, matrix biology, stem cell biology, and health services research (e.g., quality of life, healthcare delivery, and study of clinical manifestation). 

For the 2022 grant funding cycle, the foundation will award grants of up to $200,000 in the key areas of scleroderma-related lung disease research and pediatric scleroderma. An established investigator conducting scleroderma-related lung disease research will receive a specific, donor-funded grant of $200,000.

Applications may be submitted by U.S. nonprofit organizations, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories. Foreign organizations and institutions are not eligible. Applicants must have a doctorate degree in medicine, osteopathy, veterinary medicine, or one of the sciences; and must have completed a postdoctoral fellowship by the grant award date.

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