In a strong show of support for the CF community, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee recently expressed the importance of innovative cystic fibrosis research in a spending bill, which is part of the federal budget under consideration right now in Congress.
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The Research Additional Mentoring Program (RAMP) Award is designed to enable promising early-career physician scientists seeking additional research mentoring outside of their home academic institutions to enhance their clinical or translational research proficiency and support their development of the necessary clinical research capabilities to become independent investigators.
This program is intended to facilitate research that will contribute to the development of new therapies or therapeutic strategies to treat cystic fibrosis with an emphasis on advancing CFTR gene repair and replacement approaches.
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation invited more than 100 scientists to its research conference in Savannah, Ga., last month to discuss recent advancements in gene therapy, gene editing and stem-cell biology and how these new technologies could be applied to finding a one-time cure for cystic fibrosis.
Clinical postdoctoral research fellowships are offered to support postdoctoral research training related to cystic fibrosis. These awards are intended to enable training in new research areas and methods to advance the scientific knowledge of the applicant and to collect data to enable their transition into an impactful research career.
Robust funding for the National Institutes of Health helps ensure innovation in basic research and a full pipeline of cystic fibrosis therapies. A well-resourced U.S. Food and Drug Administration helps advance therapies that are safe and effective.
The lab will use the latest scientific advances -- including stem cell research and gene editing -- to accelerate new treatments for cystic fibrosis.
Thirty-three new projects are being funded as part of the Foundation's $100 million Infection Research Initiative.