Alpha-1 Foundation In-Cycle Research Grants

The Alpha-1 Foundation is the largest non-government funder of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD) research, having invested over $100 million across 130+ institutions worldwide. Its flagship investigator-initiated In-Cycle Research Grants fund basic and translational research advancing understanding of Alpha-1 (lung and liver disease). Awarded annually; recent cycles funded ~10-11 grants totaling $1.5M-$1.7M (FIA: Inference - per-grant amounts are not published on the scraped news pages, so amount fields are left null; confirm on the grant-opportunities page). Eligible applicants are researchers at universities, hospitals and research institutes (US and international).