Deadline: 24 January 2025
The ANRF is pleased to announce its Psoriatic Arthritis Research Grant to provide financial support to early career researchers, studying psoriatic arthritis and/or related mechanisms, who are within a few years of their transition to independence.
Goal
- ANRF is committed to nurturing the next generation of leaders in arthritis and autoimmune disease research. They are pleased to provide the opportunity to support early career researchers in their pursuit of innovative and impactful research projects. The goal is to support exceptional researchers at the key point in their career as they transition to independence to allow them the resources to make significant advances in research of arthritis and related autoimmune disease.
Scope
- This call is for all types of applications relating to psoriatic arthritis and its underlying mechanisms. If you are studying another form of arthritis or autoimmune disease, please review the All Arthritis Grant Application.
- Candidates for Psoriatic Arthritis Awards are qualified, promising investigators with a clear upward trajectory, ideally just before or within a few years after transition to independence to their own research groups; seeking to make significant contributions in the field of arthritis and related autoimmune disease research.
Funding Information
- All Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis grants are awarded for up to two years, for up to $250,000 ($125,000 max per year).
Eligibility Criteria
- Clinical and basic/foundational studies will be considered. Clinical studies should have a translational component that helps reveal the underlying mechanisms or response to therapy.
- One application may be submitted per lab annually. It is highly encouraged that interested applicants discuss the desire to apply with their lab and PI. If multiple applicants from the same lab submit an application, only the first application submitted will be reviewed.
- Investigators must possess either an M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree or equivalent.
- Applicants are not required to be U.S. citizens.
- Applicants must be affiliated with, and complete all grant-funded research, at a qualified U.S. nonprofit research institution.
- Preference will be given to senior postdoctoral investigators transitioning to independent investigator status and new assistant professors.
- Applications that list a Co-PI will not be accepted.
- Applicants may not have, or ever had, an NIH RO1 grant or equivalent. Do not apply if you’ve had an NIH RO1 or equivalent support.
- Applicants may not apply for funding if they have already received an All Arthritis or Psoriatic Arthritis Grant from ANRF.
For more information, visit ANRF.
