CFF Research Grants
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The CFF Research Grant fall cycle provides the same funding terms as the spring cycle and serves as the second annual opportunity for basic science investigators who missed the May deadline or chose to strengthen preliminary data over the summer. The award provides up to $150,000 per year in direct costs plus 12% indirect costs for up to two years, competitively renewable. The fall deadline is exp…
Basic science research on etiology and pathogenesis of CF; hypothesis-driven, subcellular to patient level; no CFTR modulator/gene therapy focus.
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