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Page Title: Grants and Funding

External Funding Source - Lung Cancers

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

9/5/11, The award amount is $60,000 per year. The awards are subject to annual review and may be granted for up to three years.

This award is intended to support the career development of established independent investigators who show great promise for a national leadership role in investigative work related to lung disease biology, traditional clinical studies related to patient care, and behavioral and psychosocial matters relevant to lung disease. Awardees are expected to devote their full-time, and in no case less than 75 percent of their time, to research.
American Lung Association
Clinical Research Grant
http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=19728

10/21/11, Grants are $40,000 per year for up to two years. The second year of support is based on demonstrating satisfactory progress as well as the availability of ALA funding.

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

10/21/11. 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.

Uniting Against Lung Cancer (formerly Joan's Legacy)
Research Grants

http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=98529

5/14/11, Each award is for $100,000 total, paid in $50,000 disbursements over two years. Indirect costs may represent no more than 10% of the total.

UAL 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

10/21/11, $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.


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