Hope APFED/AAAAI Grant Award

The Hope APFED/AAAAI Grant Award aims to support innovative research projects related to Eosinophilic Disorders, excluding asthma, rhinitis, and eczema. This initiative encourages collaboration between the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and the American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders, providing a platform for independent researchers to secure future funding. Applicants must be AAAAI members and hold relevant academic positions, ensuring a commitment to advancing knowledge in allergy and immunology.

About the AAAAI
This membership includes allergist / immunologists, other medical specialists, allied health and related healthcare professionals—all with a special interest in the research and treatment of allergic and immunologic diseases.
Living our Core Values
Professionalism and Integrity. Scholarship and Education. Service. Stewardship. Inclusion. Leadership. These core values serve as the foundation for the organization’s routine activities as well as advance AAAAI strategic initiatives on behalf of the specialty and the patients we serve.
The 2026 Hope APFED/AAAAI Grant Award was established to allow investigators from a variety of disciplines to initiate new projects relevant to Eosinophilic Disorders, excluding asthma, rhinitis and eczema. Successful applications will focus on the development of new ideas which are likely to lead to future external funding.
The 2026 Hope APFED/AAAAI Grant Award is a collaborative award program between the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and the American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders (APFED). The award program is administered by the AAAAI and equally funded by each Association.

Eligibility

Applicants must be an AAAAI member in good standing at the time of applicationMD, DO, Nursing Doctorate, PhD, or MD/PhDFull-time faculty appointment as an instructor or higher level in an allergy section or division at a medical school in the United StatesPriority will be given to applicants at or below the rank of associate professor.Applicants must be independent, self-directed researchers for whom their institution must provide space and other resources customary for independent investigators.The application must convey the commitment of the institution to the applicant and the proposed research activities.
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Ineligibility

Applicants from institutions that do not have accreditation from the AAALAC, USDA and/or IACUC are not eligible to apply.