Research Grant Program
IDF provides research grants to support clinicians and scientists focused on primary immunodeficiency (PI).
IDF provides research grants to support clinicians and scientists focused on primary immunodeficiency (PI).
Four projects, totaling more than $150,000, each work towards reducing the time to diagnosis. The awarded researchers are Drs. Emily Harris, David Nguyen, Alexandra Martinson, and Lauren Meyer.
Dr. Donald Kohn will use his grant funds to gather crucial pre-clinical data for a gene editing strategy to treat X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA). If successful, his strategy could begin clinical trials in 2-4 years.
IDF’s 2023 grantees are developing treatments like gene editing and fecal microbiome transplant, advancing genetic diagnoses, and developing techniques to better understand specific PIs.
Starting in 2022, the top-ranked grant in each cycle has been awarded the Michael Blaese Research Grant Award, named in honor of IDF’s long-time medical advisor and noted PI researcher, Dr. Michael Blaese.
Blaese awardee: Dr. Joud Hajjar, Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Brenna LaBere, Boston Children’s Hospital; Dr. Beth Thielen, University of Minnesota; Dr. Artemio Jongco, Feinstein Institutes of Medical Research.
Read about the 2022 winning grants.
Dr. Alice Chau, Seattle Children’s Institute; Dr. Pietro Genovese, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Dr. Sarah Henrickson, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Dr. Michelle Hermiston, University of California San Francisco; Dr. Paul Maglione, Boston University School of Medicine; Dr. Bethany Percha, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Dr. Qian Zhang, The Rockefeller University.
Dr. Shanmuganathan Chandrakasan, Emory University; Dr. Stacey Lynn Clardy, University of Utah; Dr. Rui Yang, The Rockefeller University.
Dr. Lori Broderick, University of California, San Diego; Dr. Megan Cooper, St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation; Dr. Attila Kumanovics, University of Utah; Dr. Carrie L. Lucas, Yale University.
View 2018 and 2019 awarded grants.
Dr. Sara Barmettler, Massachusetts General Hospital; Dr. Nilesh Chitnis, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Dr. Joud Hajjar, Baylor School of Medicine; Dr. Artemio Jongco, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; Dr. Sergio Rosenzweig, National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Sonia Sharma, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology.
In 2022, IDF sponsored a White Paper Challenge to seek out new ideas and address relevant topics in the PI community. We invited submissions from all individuals, institutions, schools, and researchers with exciting ideas about expanding awareness in communities of color, increasing equity in clinical trials, and shortening the time from diagnosis to treatment.
The IDF Survey Research Center provides current information on PI through the analysis of patient and caregiver survey responses.
Provide your patients with information on participating in clinical trials for PI.
USIDNET is a national registry of PI patients who have volunteered their medical information to help researchers answer important questions.
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