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Funding Opportunities

Childhood Eczema Challenge Grant – ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

March 1, 2021 By Katherine Devenport

Overview

Nearly 10 million U.S children under the age of 18 are affected by eczema, with one-third affected by moderate-to-severe disease. Despite recent therapeutic advances, the burdens on these patients, and their families, can be significant and many important research questions remain unanswered.  To address this need, PeDRA and the National Eczema Association (NEA) are collaborating to support targeted clinical research investigations focused on pediatric eczema with the 2021 Childhood Eczema Challenge Grant. Through this grant NEA and PeDRA intend to accelerate research that improves the health and quality of life of pediatric eczema patients and their families

Focus

This Challenge Grant is intended to stimulate early and mid-career scientists as they seek to build and sustain careers as research investigators and future thought leaders within this critical field of study. Research proposals should address at least one of the following priorities related to pediatric eczema:

  • Eczema Heterogeneity:  Novel Insights: Projects aimed at advancing understanding of the underlying factors contributing to the diversity of pediatric eczema clinical presentation, treatment response and comorbidities.
  • Innovations in Clinical Practice & Care: Studies addressing approaches to facilitate optimal identification and treatment of pediatric eczema and associated comorbidities in all health care settings to enhance patient/caregiver-reported and patient/caregiver-centric outcomes. 
  • Understanding & Alleviating Disease Burden: Insightful proposals that identify, quantify or aim to reduce aspects of pediatric eczema burden that negatively affect patient or family/caregiver quality of life (including lifestyle, academic, occupational, or economic impacts) based on patient population, treatment approach, etc.
  • Eczema Prevention Novel investigations into the potential risk factors and strategies of primary eczema prevention in the pediatric population.

Important Details

  • Up to $50,000 to support one year of research
  • Priority given to proposals that focus on clinical or translational research
  • Applications are due May 4, 2021
  • 2021 Request for Proposals (RFP)
application portal

Last Year’s Childhood Eczema Challenge Grant Recipient:

Junko Takeshita, MD, PhD, MSCE

Childhood Eczema Challenge Grant

University of Pennsylvania

Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Utilization for Childhood Atopic Dermatitis

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    Filed Under: Developed Ideas and Special Initiatives, Funding Opportunities

    Research Fellowships Program – CLOSED

    January 13, 2021 By Katherine Devenport

    Overview
    Childhood skin diseases are associated with severe burden on patients, families, and health care providers. Despite this burden, effective treatments remain sparse and the pace of research slow. To help overcome these challenges, PeDRA is accepting applications for its 2021 PeDRA Research Fellowship program to support one year of mentored research for post-graduate trainees and medical students in the field of pediatric dermatology.


    Goals
    The Research Fellowships program is driven by PeDRA’s mission to create, inspire, and sustain research to prevent, treat, and cure childhood skin disease. Fellowships are intended to support the development of the next generation of physician scientists and the advancement of active research projects in the field of pediatric dermatology.

    Important Details

    • Up to $20,000 to support a one-year fellowship stipend
    • As many as eight fellowships will be awarded in 2021
    • Applications due Thursday, April 1, 2021
    • View the Request for Applications
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    Last Year’s Research Fellowship Recipients:

    Laila Abbas & Heidi Jacobe, MD, MSCS

    Research Fellowship Award

    UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Investigating Constitutive and Cell-Driven Fibroblast Activation in Pediatric Morphea

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    Stephanie Lee, MD & Lawrence Eichenfield, MD

    Research Fellowship Award

    University of California, San Diego
    Rady Childrens Hospital

    Utilization of the Topical Steroid Volume Calculator and its Effect on Atopic Dermatitis Clinical Outcomes

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    Muskaan Sachdeva, BHSc & Cathryn Sibbald, MD, MScPhm, FRCPC, MSc

    Research Fellowship Award

    University of Toronto

    Keratinocyte Carcinoma in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Patients

    Read More…

    Carmel Aghdasi & Kelly Cordoro, MD

    Research Fellowship Award

    University of California, San Francisco

    Discovering the Immune Phenotype of Morphologic Subsets of Atopic Dermatitis at the Single Cell Level

    Read More…

    Danny Linggonegoro & Jen Huang, MD

    Research Fellowship Award

    Harvard Medical School

    The impact of dilute bleach compresses on the incidence and severity of radiation dermatitis

    Read More…

    Filed Under: Career Support and Training, Early Stage Ideas and Investigators, Funding Opportunities

    Study Support Grants – ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

    January 10, 2021 By Brandon Weekes

    Study Support Grants are available to PeDRA Members only.  Please login or join PeDRA to access this content.

    Filed Under: Developed Ideas and Special Initiatives, Funding Opportunities, PeDRA Study Support

    PeDRA Research Grants

    July 1, 2020 By Brandon Weekes

    • Up to $15,000 for one year to support early stage research, with the opportunity to renew
    • May be submitted by individuals or teams 
    • Applications due Thursday, December 3, 2020.
    • Optional opportunity to submit a preliminary application by September 17, 2020 for chance to discuss with a peer-reviewer during the PeDRA Annual Conference
    • Request for Applications (RFA)
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    Grantee Testimonial

    2018 Research Grant recipient, Dawn Eichenfield, MD, PhD, shares her PeDRA journey and experience as a new grantee.

    2020 Program Overview

    PeDRA’s Executive Director spends a few minutes explaining the 2020 Research Grants program and changes that have been made.

    Filed Under: Career Support and Training, Early Stage Ideas and Investigators, Funding Opportunities

    Consensus Grant

    June 1, 2020 By Brandon Weekes

    • Up to $25,000 for one year to support the creation of consensus guidelines or best practice recommendations for the management of diseases in the field of pediatric dermatology
    • Applications due Thursday, December 3, 2020
    • 2020 CONSENSUS GRANT RFA
    • 2020 CONSENSUS GRANT FILLABLE APPLICATION

    Filed Under: Developed Ideas and Special Initiatives, Funding Opportunities

    William Weston Career Development Award

    May 15, 2020 By Brandon Weekes

    Run in partnership with the Society for Pediatric Dermatology

    • $40,000 for one year of support for early-career pediatric dermatologists
    • To support the conduct of a research project under the mentorship of a senior investigator
    • Applications due Thursday, December 3, 2020
    • 2020 WESTON CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD RFA
    • 2020 WESTON CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD FILLABLE APPLICATION

    Filed Under: Career Support, Career Support and Training, Early Stage Ideas and Investigators, Funding Opportunities

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