Lupus - Distinguished Innovator Awards 2015 ($ 1,000,000)

The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) invites applications for its Distinguished Innovator Awards. Grants applications are due by June 25, 2015. The awards will provide outstanding scientists with substantial support to conduct novel research into the fundamental causes of lupus and so provide new directions toward a cure or prevention. Annual funding of up to $ 250,000 per year, for a term of up to four years, will be awarded for approved projects. A maximum of four awards will be made in 2015.

LRI welcomes novel, hypothesis- or discovery-driven proposals in human and/or animal model based lupus research. The research proposal must aim to uncover the fundamental causes of lupus and present a compelling vision of how the discovery would lay the groundwork for a potential cure, prevention, or highly effective therapy. Applications are encouraged from investigators in diverse disciplines including, but not limited to, immunology, genetics, molecular-, cell- and systems biology.

The Lupus Research Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to novel research in lupus. Recognizing that most major medical breakthroughs come from unexpected directions, the LRI fosters and supports only the highest-ranked new science to prevent, treat and cure lupus.