Since PHA began fundraising for research in 1999,
ten grants have been awarded and almost $1,500,000 has been raised.
In 2003 alone, almost $400,000 has been raised for the research
agenda. PHA's research funds support our two major research funding
programs, with new awards granted annually:
Young Researcher Fellowships -
These two-year, $70,000 grants are designed to attract researchers
at the front end of their careers to an interest in pulmonary
hypertension research. Nine fellowships have been granted since
2000. The Young Researchers are working at some of the top universities
in the country, including Columbia; Harvard; Johns Hopkins;
Stanford; University of Colorado, Denver; and University of
California, San Diego.
Mentored Clinical Research (K08) Program
- These grants are the result of a cooperative agreement
with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) within
the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PHA is working with
this premier research support organization to jointly fund five
of these five-year grants. One new fellowship is being awarded
per year, beginning in February of 2003. The first award was
made to Reda Girgis, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine.
When the cycle is fully mature, PHA's annual commitment
for this research program will be over $300,000 per year. NHLBI
has committed to funding approximately $500,000 per year and is
absorbing all administrative costs. This means our supporters,
with $300,000 in annual giving, will be leveraging a total of
$800,000 in new PH research each year.
At the suggestion of NHLBI, this program has been
expanded beginning in 2004 to include applications for Mentored
Patient-Oriented Research in Pulmonary Hypertension (K23 awards).
As PHA increases research funding, this opens the future possibility
of funding both a K08 and a K23 award annually.
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