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Grants: Helping You Advance Health Care

Through our grants, researchers and community volunteers are revolutionizing lung health and improving patient care in communities throughout the world.

SUBMIT GRANT REPORTS

Grants: Helping You Advance Health Care

Through our grants, researchers and community volunteers are revolutionizing lung health and improving patient care in communities throughout the world.

SUBMIT GRANT REPORTS

Changing lives, transforming communities

Since 1996, we’ve supported more than 1,000 recipients and awarded $12 million in funding for grants that have had a positive impact on lung health.

Our grantees have improved screening for sleep disorders in pregnant women, increased access to lung transplants for underweight patients with COPD, and researched the connection between pulmonary arterial hypertension and the microbiome. Their work has touched many corners of the world, from south Sacramento, California, to Haiti and Peru.

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GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

COMMUNITY IMPACT

CHEST Community Impact Grant Honoring D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP

Grant amount: $15,000 1-year grant

This grant supports significant community-based projects worldwide that demonstrate a clear positive impact on the lung health of a community and have the potential for long-term sustainability and reproducibility.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

RESEARCH

COPD Research Grant

Grant amount: $30,000 1-year grant

Applications must address clinical, population, or community engagement/health services aspects of COPD with relevance to the prevention and/or reduction in morbidity or mortality associated with COPD.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

Cystic Fibrosis Research Grant

Grant amount: $50,000 1-year grant

Applications must address important and timely issues surrounding the pathophysiology, diagnosis, management, and/or treatment of cystic fibrosis.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

Critical Care Medicine Research Grant

Grant amount: $150,000 3-year grant

Applications must advance the understanding of critical care medicine and be clinically relevant with a focus on implications of health disparities on outcomes from critical illness.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Diseases Research Grant

Grant amount: $30,000 1-year grant

Applications must address important and timely issues of nontuberculous mycobacteria diseases.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

John R. Addrizzo, MD, FCCP, Research Grant in Sarcoidosis

Grant amount: $20,000 1-year grant

Applications must address the pathophysiology, diagnosis, management, and/or treatment of sarcoidosis.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

Sleep Medicine Research Grant

Grant amount: $50,000 1-year grant

Applications must address topics that advance sleep medicine and, ultimately, improve patient outcomes.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

Women’s Lung Health Disparities Research Grant

Grant amount: $10,000 1-year grant

Applications must address important and timely issues surrounding women’s lung health, including, but not limited to, diseases such as COPD and lung cancer.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

Young Investigator Research Grant

Grant amount: $50,000 1-year grant

The purpose of this grant is to encourage and promote quality research in chest medicine by enabling promising investigators to begin their careers as independent research faculty. Funds are to be used to facilitate basic or applied clinical research by a young investigator in the field of chest medicine. Research into any aspect of chest medicine will be considered.

Deadline: April 22, 2024

Deadline:
April 22, 2024

MEDICAL EDUCATION

APCCMPD and CHEST Medical Educator Scholar Diversity Fellowship

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

NSCLC Biomarker Testing Checklists Quality Improvement Demonstration Project

Bridging Specialties™: Timely Diagnosis for ILD Quality Improvement Demonstration Project

RESEARCH

ALA/ATS/CHEST Respiratory Health Equity Research Award

WOMEN'S LUNG HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANT

Chien-Ching Li, PhD, MPH

“Not many studies focus on identifying the risk factors with lung cancer associated with Chinese American [women who have never smoked]. This is why we want to focus on this area to provide more knowledge and make more contributions to research.”

READ DR. LI'S STORY »

COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT

Arzu Ari, PhD, FCCP

“Empowering junior faculty and clinicians to upskill their students and colleagues is clearly an excellent way to disseminate knowledge, and its impact on health care is invaluable.”

READ DR. ARI'S STORY »

CYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH GRANT

Kathleen Ramos, MD

“This grant was a very cool opportunity to investigate the effects of low BMI on access to transplant. The work from this grant was important when we wrote the expert consensus recommendations for the international transplant community.”

READ DR. RAMOS’ STORY »

COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT

Joseph Huang, MD

“Our graduates coordinate with [the Ministry of Health] on different policies, especially related to drug-resistant tuberculosis. They’re also training physicians in rural hospitals on basic skills in pulmonary and critical care medicine.”

READ DR. HUANG’S STORY »

WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH GRANT

Ghada Bourjeily, MD, FCCP

“Our lab has been able to improve things for pregnant women where we were able to diagnose them with sleep apnea, offer them treatment, and counsel them in terms of the risk of pregnancy.”

READ DR. BOURJEILY’S STORY »

SLEEP MEDICINE RESEARCH GRANT

Nancy Stewart, DO, MS

“If you can make a difference at the bedside for one patient in the trajectory of their health and their care—that is what is most meaningful for me.”

READ DR. STEWART'S STORY »

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The strides our grantees have made in the chest medicine field wouldn’t be possible without support from our donors. Take an active role in championing lung health, and consider making a gift to support our research and community impact grants. Your gifts will make it possible for grantees to continue their work advancing science and improving the lives of those living with lung diseases.

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Changing lives, transforming communities

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

CHEST Community Impact Grant Honoring D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP

COPD Research Grant

Cystic Fibrosis Research Grant

Critical Care Medicine Research Grant

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Diseases Research Grant

John R. Addrizzo, MD, FCCP, Research Grant in Sarcoidosis

Sleep Medicine Research Grant

Women’s Lung Health Disparities Research Grant

Young Investigator Research Grant

Support our grants program