Thursday, January 9 | 1-2 pm
Virtual Event
Are you looking for funding to study lung cancer? The LUNGevity Foundation supports research with the potential to improve lung cancer outcomes. In this virtual workshop for the BU research community, LUNGevity Executive Director of Research Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, will present on the foundation’s five grant programs:
- The Brown/LUNGevity Award to Understand Mechanisms of Resistance to Immunotherapy funds research that seeks to understand resistance to first-line immunotherapy and develop therapeutic strategies targeting this resistance ($500k over two years).
- LUNGevity’s Career Development Award supports future research leaders who will keep the field of lung cancer research vibrant with new ideas ($300k over three years).
- The Hamoui Foundation/LUNGevity Clinical Research Award for RET-positive Lung Cancer supports research seeking to transform the future for people diagnosed with RET-positive lung cancer ($500k over two years).
- The RETpositive/LUNGevity Translational Research Award for RET-positive Cancer funds research that seeks to transform the future for patients diagnosed with RET-positive cancers by changing RET-positive cancers into a chronic or curable condition ($100k over two years).
- The Rising Tide/LUNGevity Team Award to Target Mechanisms of Resistance funds interventional clinical trials that seek to develop therapeutic strategies targeting shared mechanisms of resistance in oncogene-driven lung adenocarcinoma ($1.5M three-year team award; the involvement of at least two institutions is required).
Last year’s LUNGevity grant program deadlines fell in mid-February, so this is the ideal time to learn more about the foundation’s grantmaking processes and priorities.
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About the Meet the Funder Series
The Meet the Funder series, sponsored by BU Foundation Relations, offers virtual workshops designed to acquaint BU faculty and researchers with foundations and other private charitable organizations that offer opportunities and programs for grant-seekers.