Arthritis Foundation: Pilot Award – Advancing Understanding of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Onset, Progression, and Treatment Response

If you have a faculty member interested in applying to any of the below opportunities, please contact Carole King at Carole.King@med.usc.edu

• LOI due June 2, 2025
• Amount up to $150,000 (including 8% indirects)
• Project timeline is two years

Funding to better understand and predict the development, progression, and treatment response of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).

This includes applications focused on investigating the conversion of pre-RA to clinical RA, disease progression, and treatment response and safety.

Competitive projects should aim to define risk factors/biomarkers of conversion of pre-RA to clinical RA, disease progression, treatment response, pathogenic mechanisms, and/or therapeutic approach personalization.

Projects should aim to investigate a novel hypothesis with no preliminary data requirements.

PIs must hold a full-time faculty/staff appointment up to and including the rank of Associate Professor or be a clinical or postdoctoral research fellow.