, /PRNewswire/ -- The Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) is pleased to denote the backing for 2 caller aviator projects successful sarcoidosis. The FSR Pilot Research Grant aims to enactment smaller standard oregon aviator probe projects. The extremity of the FSR Pilot Research Grant is to supply aboriginal vocation and established sarcoidosis researchers the fiscal enactment to stitchery aviator information to prosecute innovative probe projects that person a precocious likelihood of receiving aboriginal backing and are apt to person a important interaction of the tract of sarcoidosis.
These probe projects amusement large committedness successful advancing the understanding, diagnosis, and absorption of sarcoidosis.
This year, FSR received the astir applications to day successful pursuit of this grant-funding enactment with a full of 11 applications – showing an expanding involvement successful sarcoidosis probe astir the globe. This year, FSR Board of Directors, with the guidance of the FSR Scientific Advisory Board, selected 2 outstanding proposals to person backing astatine $25,000 each, totaling $50,000 successful funding.
FSR is pleased to denote 2 assistance awardees, Alicia Gerke, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine astatine The University of Iowa and Amanda L. Piquet, MD, Director, Autoimmune Neurology Program astatine University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Dr. Gerke's project, "Airway epithelial effect to residential antigens successful mild and terrible sarcoidosis," volition research if fungal vulnerability results successful accrued inflammatory effect and much terrible sarcoidosis symptoms. As Dr. Gerke notes, "We are highly grateful for the enactment of the FSR arsenic we effort to find the underlying mechanisms that pb to terrible sarcoidosis. We anticipation that by doing this, we tin modify either the situation oregon the immune effect to amended prime of beingness and support organ relation successful patients afflicted with chronic sarcoidosis."
Dr. Piquet's project, "Biomarkers of Inflammation and Neuronal Injury with Associated Clinical Outcome Measures successful Neurosarcoidosis: A Pilot Study," which aims to place biomarkers that tin beryllium utilized successful spot of oregon successful conjunction with biopsy successful diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis and tracking of illness progression. As Dr. Piquet notes, "A reliable biomarker for the diagnosis and appraisal of illness progression is lacking successful neurosarcoidosis. At the University of Colorado, we are excited to person an accidental to beforehand the tract by helping to place surrogate biomarkers that whitethorn correlate to objective outcomes measures, frankincense defining a biomarker that allows for pursuing illness progression implicit time."
"This has been an bonzer twelvemonth for innovative applications for FSR's probe backing support. This year's awarded FSR Pilot Grant projects amusement large committedness successful advancing the understanding, diagnosis, and absorption of sarcoidosis." says Mary McGowan, FSR's CEO.
FSR is dedicated to accelerating sarcoidosis probe done fellowships, tiny grants, ample grants, and illness circumstantial grants to beforehand sarcoidosis probe and beforehand attraction for those surviving with sarcoidosis. FSR has provided a full of implicit $6 cardinal dollars successful backing successful enactment of sarcoidosis research.
To larn much astir FSR's Research Programs and probe programs, delight visit: (https://www.stopsarcoidosis.org/fsr-grants/)
About Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is simply a uncommon inflammatory illness characterized by the enactment of granulomas—tiny clumps of inflammatory cells—in 1 oregon much organs of the body. Despite expanding advances successful research, sarcoidosis remains hard to diagnose with constricted attraction options and nary known cure. Approximately 175,000 radical unrecorded with sarcoidosis successful the United States.
About the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research
The Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) is the starring planetary enactment dedicated to uncovering a cure for sarcoidosis and to improving attraction for sarcoidosis patients done research, education, and support. Since its constitution successful 2000, FSR has fostered over $6 million in sarcoidosis-specific probe efforts. For much accusation astir FSR and to articulation our community, visit: stopsarcoidosis.org.
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