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| Research Grants |
The Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation strives to foster research that will have the greatest potential impact on Sjögren’s syndrome patients, ensuring new therapeutics are developed and a cure found.To accomplish this goal, the Foundation focuses on encouraging and funding the best and most innovative research grants and student fellowships and advocates for increased research from U.S. government sources and medical centers around the world. A high priority is placed on both clinical and basic scientific research into the cause, prevention, detection, treatment, and cure of Sjögren’s syndrome, with support provided to investigators at every career level from student to junior investigator to senior-level leader.
The SSF offers research grants in the amount of $35,000 annually and an Innovative Concept Grant in the amount of $50,000 annually. Grants in both categories are awarded for two years, the second year being dependent on satisfactory grant progress. All applicants submit the same application with a budget of $35,000, and the Innovative Concept Grant winner is selected from those applicants. SSF research grants are open to basic and clinical scientists holding an advanced degree (MD, DDS, DMD, or PhD) at any U.S. university or research institution. Both junior and senior investigators may apply. For physicians, advanced clinical training in a specialty related to Sjögren’s syndrome, such as rheumatology or ophthalmology, is desirable. The application receipt deadline is February 1 each year. The grant funding period is July 1 through June 30.
The Innovative Concept Research Grant is offered at a higher funding level with the intention of nurturing the development of hypotheses that reach beyond the current paradigms of their topic area. This grant is open to any topic related to Sjögren’s syndrome. All grant applicants apply for the SSF $35,000 research grant. From the group of grant winners, the SSF Research Review Committee selects the most innovative and awards it the SSF Innovative Concept Research Grant. At that time, a new budget for the $50,000 grant will be requested. The Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation is grateful to the Galewood Foundation for its generous donation in 2009 and 2010 to ensure that the most innovative research in Sjögren’s is funded. In fact, the SSF received so many excellent applications for innovative research that the Galewood Foundation agreed to use its funds to ensure two research projects could be carried out. This gift builds on the two-year Innovative Concept Research Grant Award supported by the Leach family in 2008 and 2009. Thanks to these donations, the Foundation is able to offer grants that reward exceptionally creative thinking to encourage breakthroughs in Sjögren’s research and benefit the four million Americans and many more worldwide who suffer from this devastating disease.
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