Funded Research - Lupus Research Alliance

Empowering Lupus Research Postdoctoral Award

The Empowering Lupus Research Postdoctoral Award ($200,000 over 2 years) supports promising scientists who reflect the communities and populations of people living with lupus. The award provides support for awardees to generate the scientific data and unique research ideas necessary to ultimately transition to an independent lupus researcher role.

2025 Funded Grants

Identifying and targeting novel IFN-I regulators in pDCs for Lupus therapy

Carolina Chiale, PhD
The Regents of the University of California, San Diego

2024 Funded Grants

Role of B cell activation through toll-like receptors in systemic lupus erythematosus

Rodrigo Cervantes-DÍaz, Ph.D.
Boston Children’s Hospital

Integrins control the trafficking of autoantigens in B cells

Jonathan Lagos Orellana, M.D., Ph.D.
Seattle Children’s Hospital

2023 Funded Grants

Deciphering the role of Epstein-Barr virus in SLE pathogenesis

Shady Younis, PhD
Stanford University

Archive of dlrpa grants

Distinguished Innovator Award (DIA) Lupus Mechanisms and Targets Award (LMTA) Lupus Innovation Award (LIA) LRA-BMS Accelerator Awards (BMS) Common Mechanisms in Autoimmunity Global Team Science Award Empowering Lupus Research Postdoctoral Award Empowering Lupus Research Career Development Award Translational Bridge Award Targeted Research Program on Engineered Cell Therapies for Lupus (TRP-ECT)

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