The National Scleroderma Foundation has issued a request for applications, which includes the following two opportunities:
New Investigator Grant
- Purpose: To support promising scleroderma research that is likely to lead to individual research project grants.
- Eligibility: Applicants must have a doctoral degree in Medicine, Osteopathy, Veterinary Medicine or one of the sciences; and must have completed a postdoctoral fellowship by the grant award date. Applicants who have been a principal investigator on grants other than fellowship grants are not eligible.
- Budget and Project Period: $200,000 over 3 years, including 8% indirect costs.
Established Investigator Grant
- Purpose: To support promising established investigators both inside and outside the field of scleroderma research who wish to propose pilot studies to obtain preliminary data dealing with a highly innovative and/or highly relevant theme related to the disease. This grant will support pilot research that is likely to lead to more substantial unlimited research project grants from federal or non-federal sources.
- Eligibility: Applicants must have a doctorate degree in Medicine, Osteopathy, Veterinary Medicine or one of the sciences; must have completed a postdoctoral fellowship; and have been principal investigator on grants from the National Scleroderma Foundation or other national, private or government agencies in the past.
- Budget and Project Period: $200,000 over 2 years, including 8% indirect costs.
To Apply:
- This is an open RFP (UCSF may submit an unlimited number of applications).
- Follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Grants Officer as needed. Please notify your Grants Officer as soon as possible of your intention to apply to ensure that they will have enough time to support your application.
- Application deadline is September 15, 2026.
For more information and to review complete application instructions and eligibility requirements, please visit https://scleroderma.org/grant-opportunities/.
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