Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.alpha1.org/Investigators/Grants/Grant-Opportunities
Sponsor/Award: ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION - RESEARCH GRANT - EFFECT OF AUGMENTATION THERAPY ON COPD EXACERBATIONS

Grant Amount: UP TO $500K FOR 2 YEARS
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: May 01, 2017
Sponsor's: May 08, 2017

Subject Areas:
Description:

The Grants Award Program is the Alpha-1 Foundation's mechanism to fund a broad range of research that leads to improvements in the lives of people living with AAT Deficiency. The objective of this grant is to provide funds to encourage the development of new information that contributes to the understanding of the basic biology of AAT expression, and the pathogenesis/management of AAT Deficiency. In addition, consideration will be given to those projects that provide insight into the development of information that may contribute to new therapies for AAT Deficiency. All proposals must be hypothesis generating or hypothesis testing and provide sufficient preliminary data to justify the Alpha-1 Foundation's support. - See more at: http://www.alpha1.org/Investigators/Grants/Grant-Opportunities#sthash.uDwDT1fj.dpuf

The purpose of this RFA is to assess the effect of intravenous augmentation therapy compared to placebo on acute pulmonary exacerbations (frequency and/or severity and/or time to first exacerbation) in patients with severe alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (serum alpha-1 antitrypsin level <50mg/dl when clinically stable).

Application Details: The Alpha-1 Foundation requires applicants to submit their full applications online using proposalCENTRAL.THE FOUNDATION DOES NOT PAY FOR INDIRECT COSTS
NOTE: All Letters of Intent and Full Applications must be processed through Research Development & Services for institutional approval. Requests for Institutional approvals should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline. A ROLA Proposal (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean electronic approvals) is required for each submission.
Western Contacts: Moxey,Laura
Kilianski,Louise
Hancock,Jennifer Anne

Sponsor Contacts:

DAVID FERNANDEZ: DFERNANDEZ@ALPHA1.ORG
3300 Ponce de Leon Blvd
Coral Gables, Florida, United States