CDMRP Lupus Research Program: Impact award

The Lupus Research Program Impact Award encourages applications that support research projects or ideas that focus on lupus issues, which, if successfully addressed, have the potential to make a major impact in lupus research.

Applicants are required to address at least one of the following FY19 Focus Areas:

• Understand how lupus disease heterogeneity impacts risk of disease, disease presentation, clinical course, and outcomes; u
• Understand lupus disease heterogeneity including, but not limited to, strategies and technologies to subtype patients and understanding lupus disease mechanisms.
• Improve quality of life for individuals living with lupus.
• Understand how the underlying genetic components of lupus relate to clinical disease characteristics using functional genomic studies.
• Determine the pathobiology of lupus disease in target human tissues.

Funding: $525,000 total 

Duration: 3 years 

Research Authority due date: 30.5.19

Pre application (required) due date: 7.6.19

Full proposal due date: 4.9.19