CDMRP Lupus Research Program: Impact award

The Lupus Research Program Impact Award encourages applications that support research projects or ideas that focus on lupus issues, which, if successfully addressed, have the potential to make a major impact in lupus research.

Applicants are required to address at least one of the following FY22 Focus Areas:

• Understanding how lupus disease heterogeneity impacts risk of disease, disease presentation, clinical course, and outcomes; using a diverse range of research disciplines
• Understanding the biological mechanisms of lupus disease including, but not limited to, studies of informative/rare patients
• Determining the pathobiology of end organ injury related to lupus disease in target human tissues
• Improving quality of life for individuals living with lupus
• Understanding the underlying genetic and epigenetic components and gene-environment interactions of lupus and how they may relate to clinical disease characteristics, variations, disparities, and differences in response to therapies using functional genomic studies
• Innovative health care delivery models improving outcomes for lupus

It is expected that 7 awards will be granted. 

Funding: $750,000 total 

Duration: 4 years 

Research Authority due date: 9.8.22

Pre application (required) due date: 16.8.22

Full proposal due date: 1.9.22