CFF Pilot and Feasibility Award

The CFF Pilot and Feasibility Award supports early basic science in cystic fibrosis outside the Path to a Cure priorities. It sits under the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as a seed-funding award for investigators who want to test a new hypothesis before moving into larger work. Awards are fixed at $50,000 a year for two years, with 12% indirect costs. The program runs twice a year, with May and December deadlines, and it is limited to U.S. universities and research organizations; for-profit applicants and individuals are not eligible. The review sits with the foundation's Research and Research Training Committee. This award is meant for projects that are still proving their basic premise rather than building toward the gene-repair agenda of the Path to a Cure awards. Applicants are strongest when they can show a crisp question, a limited experimental plan, and a clear reason the work will open a larger cystic fibrosis research line.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.