American Lung Association
ALA/LAM Career Investigator Award
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=19731

9/4/08, $50 K/yr for 3 years

Targeted toward junior to mid-level faculty who focus in the abnormal proliferation of smooth muscle that occurs in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)

American Lung Association
Clinical Research Grant
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=19728

9/4/08, $35 K/yr for 2 years

To support patient-focused research that will develop new insights into clinical, social, behavioral, and biological factors that affect the manifestation of lung health and disease.

ALA
Senior Research Training Fellowship
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=19727

9/4/08. Award is for $32,500 per year. It is granted for up to two years and subject to an annual review.

Award is to support the training of scientific investigators in adult and pediatric pulmonary medicine and lung biology. At the time of application, an applicant must hold a doctoral degree or have comparable qualifications. The M.D. applicant must have completed clinical training, have some research experience, and be entering the fourth or fifth year of research fellowship training.

Joan's Legacy Research Grants
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=98529

7/2/08, up to 50,000 for 2 yrs

Joan's Legacy invites grant applications for institutional research that studies lung cancer. The foundation is particularly interested in the genetic basis and biology of bronchoalveolar carcinoma as well as novel therapeutic approaches for the treatment of this disease. This funding is intended primarily as seed money for promising new work. It is not for supporting research where funding has either lapsed or has been previously disapproved. Preference will be given to applications where indirect costs are minimal or nonexistent.

American Lung Association
Social Behavioral Research Grant
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=87062

9/4/08, $40,000 per year for 2 yrs

Applicant must hold a doctoral degree and faculty appointment, and have completed two years of postdoc research training.  PA to support investigators working on epidemiological and behavioral studies examining risk factors affecting lung health. Areas of particular interest to the ALA are psychosocial lung health research, behavioral lung health research, health services and health policy research, epidemiological and biostatistical lung health research, and health education. A small amount of funding is available for asbestos-related research.

National Lung Cancer Partnership
National Lung Cancer Partnership Research Grant
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=91555

9/1/08 , $100K

Generously funded by a gift from Genentech, these awards are designed to provide seed money for promising novel research on sex differences in lung cancer for faculty members at any point in their careers. Applications will only be accepted for research plans involving lung cancer research as it relates to sex and gender differences.