The Lupus Research Alliance has two open opportunities for significant funding for lupus research and for notable recognition of a scientific breakthrough of relevance to lupus.
Request for Applications for the Dr. William E. Paul Distinguished Innovator Award in Lupus and Autoimmunity ($1 million over four years). This grant mechanism is intended to attract exceptionally creative scientists from all relevant scientific disciplines and to provide them with a robust and sustained support to explore bold and paradigm shifting ideas that could lead to ground-breaking discoveries in lupus research. Investigators working in areas outside of lupus are strongly encouraged to apply. The Lupus Research Alliance welcomes novel, hypothesis- or discovery-driven proposals in human and/or animal-model based lupus research. The research proposal must aim to uncover the fundamental causes of lupus and present a compelling vision of how the discovery would lay the groundwork for a cure, prevention, or highly effective therapy. Applications will be judged primarily on the novelty and potential of the research proposal, and the strengths and track record of the investigator. Emphasis will be on the rationale for the hypothesis rather than the amount of preliminary data. Successful applicants will be outstanding investigators who have demonstrated creativity and productivity in their field of research. We encourage applications from investigators in diverse disciplines including, but not limited to, immunology, genetics, molecular-, cell- and systems biology.
Applicants must hold a faculty position, at the assistant professor level or above, at an academic institution in or outside of the US.
A 2-page Letter of Intent (LOI) will be used to judge the significance, novelty and alignment of the proposed project concept with the funding mechanism. Applicants of successful LOIs will be invited to submit full applications. The LOI deadline is March 15, 2019. For further information, please click here.
Call for Nominations for the 2019 Lupus Insight Prize. The $100,000 Prize recognizes significant scientific insights relevant to understanding the causes, biology, or treatment of lupus. While the insight need not have been made specifically about lupus, it should be applicable and applied, using the Prize funds, to understanding lupus pathogenesis or informing lupus treatment. The Prize aims to stimulate further advances leading to improved outcomes for patients with lupus and ultimately to a cure.
The primary objective of the Lupus Insight Prize is to identify and recognize an outstanding investigator who has developed a novel research insight in scientific domains relevant to lupus. The Prize is not a lifetime achievement award. Instead, the Lupus Insight Prize will be given for a specific, significant and recent (within the past five years) discovery that is relevant to lupus. This accolade will be awarded to an outstanding investigator with a documented record of creativity, innovation, and productivity who has made a novel insight and/or discovery in an area of research that is applicable to the pathogenesis or treatment of lupus and who is judged to have a high likelihood of generating further significant advances by applying the insight to lupus. This should shift the current paradigms and should significantly advance lupus understanding or treatment.
The nomination deadline is January 15, 2019. For further information, please visit http://lupusin sightprize.org.