The Mechanistic Clinical Award ($750,000 for up to three years) supports pilot studies testing lifestyle interventions in concert with hypothesis-driven mechanistic analysis to illuminate the underlying effects.
2026 Funded Grants
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Exercise and muscle biology in systemic lupus erythematosus
Jose Rubio, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Neutrophil homeostasis through ginger supplementation in SLE
Jason Knight, MD, PhD
Regents of the University of Michigan
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Neural Mechanisms of Whole-Health Lifestyle Strategies for Lupus
Jennifer Rogers, MD
Duke University
2025 Funded Grants
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sOX40 and sOX40L: Genetically motivated biomarkers with prognostic and predictive potential in SLE
Deborah Cunninghame Graham, PhD
King’s College London
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A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Quinacrine in Patients with Cutaneous Lupus
Victoria Werth, MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania