The Global Team Science Award ($3 million over 3 years) supports interdisciplinary, collaborative, and highly synergistic projects that push the boundaries of innovation and bridge research and clinical efforts in lupus. The successful Teams will focus on unraveling human lupus heterogeneity by applying cutting-edge technologies to address critical questions that could bring about breakthroughs in lupus care, research or drug development.
The 2024 Request for Applications is available here.
Inquiries can be directed to:
Scientific: Hoang Nguyen PhD; hnguyen@lupusresearch.org
Administrative: Diomaris Gonzalez; dgonzalez@lupusresearch.org
The Distinguished Innovator Award ($1M over 4 years) provides outstanding scientists with substantial support to conduct highly innovative research into the fundamental causes of systemic lupus erythematosus and so provide new directions towards a cure.
Applications from investigators from diverse disciplines are encouraged.
The 2023 application deadline for this program has passed.
Inquiries can be directed to:
Scientific: Hoang Nguyen, PhD; hnguyen@lupusresearch.org
Administrative: Diomaris Gonzalez; dgonzalez@lupusresearch.org
The Lupus Mechanisms and Targets Award ($600,000 total costs over 3 years) supports research focused on the identification and/or investigation of molecular pathways or targets that will lead to new or improved therapies for patients with lupus.
The 2023 application deadline for this program has passed.
Inquiries can be directed to: grants@lupusresearch.org
The Lupus Research Alliance Diversity in Lupus Research Career Development Award ($600,000 over 4 years) is designed to attract outstanding early-career underrepresented minority scientists and provides them with robust and sustained support to establish a competitive independent research program in areas that reflect strategic research priorities of the Lupus Research Alliance, including defining lupus heterogeneity and stratifying patients by active disease mechanism to advance new therapeutics.
The 2023 application deadline for this program has passed.
Inquiries can be directed to: grants@lupusresearch.org
The Lupus Innovation Award ($300,000 over 2 years) provides support for pioneering, high-risk, high-reward approaches to major challenges in lupus research. Special emphasis is placed on lupus studies exploring fundamental mechanisms, novel targets and pathways, novel technologies, and interdisciplinary approaches. Both early career and established investigators new to lupus with highly innovative ideas are encouraged to apply.
The 2023 application deadline for this program has passed.
Inquiries can be directed to: grants@lupusresearch.org
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. Click here for more information.
The 2024 Request for Nominations is available here.
Inquiries can be directed to:
Scientific: Jenna Levy, PhD; jlevy@lupusresearch.org
Administrative: Erin McLaughlin, emclaughlin@lupusresearch.org
The Lupus Research Alliance Postdoctoral Award to Promote Diversity in Lupus Research ($170,000 over 2 years for fellows with no more than 4 years of postdoctoral training) is designed to attract qualified and promising underrepresented minority scientists and provides them with robust and sustained support that will help them generate scientific data and unique research ideas necessary to ultimately transition to an independent researcher role in areas that reflect the strategic research priorities of the Lupus Research Alliance, including defining lupus heterogeneity and stratifying patients by active disease mechanism to advance new therapeutics.
The 2023 application deadline for this program has passed.
Inquiries can be directed to: grants@lupusresearch.org
The LRA offers an Administrative Supplement to Promote Diversity in Lupus Research (“Diversity Supplement”) for promising underrepresented minority trainees working with LRA-funded researchers or lupus investigators supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DOD), or equivalent grants in good standing.
The 2023 Request for Applications is available here.
Inquiries can be directed to: grants@lupusresearch.org
