The American Thoracic Society is pleased to announce the grant and award recipients for the 2019 grant cycle. The support of our members, donors, and partners make these awards possible—thank you!
Partner Grants
The ATS Research Program partners with other nonprofit organizations and pharmaceutical companies to maximize the number of grants we can support. The ATS reviews all grants and assumes all costs associated with administrating the grants.
Nicholas Arger, MD
University of California, San Francisco
ATS Foundation/Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research Grant - $80,000
Single Cell RNA Sequencing of High T-bet-expressing T Cells to Determine Their Role in Sarcoidosis
Jason Boehme, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Pulmonary Hypertension Association Barst Fund Grant - $50,000
Pulmonary Vascular Smooth Muscle Metabolic Reprogramming in Congenital Heart Disease
*Fully funded by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association
Claude Farah, MBBS, PhD
The Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Australia
ATS Foundation/ResMed Research Award in Remote Monitoring and Management of COPD - $100,000
Home Telemonitoring and Predictive Analytics of Lung Function for Management of COPD
Lynn Fussner, MD
The Ohio State University
ATS Foundation/Alpha-1 Foundation Research Grant - $80,000
Impact of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Genotype on Anti-PR3 IgG Epitope Specificity and Activity
Rahul Kumar, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
ATS Foundation/Pulmonary Hypertension Association Research Fellowship - $80,000
Crosstalk Between Bone Marrow Compartment and Inflamed Lungs in Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension
Donald Sullivan, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
ATS Foundation/American Lung Association - $100,000
Improving Decision Making in Lung Cancer: A Low-literacy Conversation Tool
Ke Yuan, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital
The Aldrighetti Research Award
for Young Investigators - $80,000
Pericytes as a Source of Smooth Muscle Cells in PAH:
Role of HIF2a/CXCL12 Signaling
*Sponsorship for this award is provided by
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. through
a partnership with the Pulmonary
Hypertension Association.
ATS Foundation Unrestricted Research Grants - $40,000
The ATS Foundation funds unrestricted research grants representing the three pillars of the American Thoracic Society: pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Awards span basic, clinical, and translational research in adult and pediatric medicine. Applicants consider how their research will provide novel approaches to challenging lung diseases, foster health care equality, and improve patient outcomes.
Deepthi Alapati, MBBS
Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Optimizing Airway Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Reagents Using Non-viral Vectors
Maurizio Chioccioli, PhD
Yale University
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
A quantitative framework for diagnosing ciliary beating defects in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Raghu Chivukula, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Mechanistic Analysis of Dysfunctional Lysosomes in Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome
Alex Gileles-Hillel, MD
Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Sleep
Counteracting Intermittent Hypoxia-Induced Adipose Tissue Dysfunction via VEGF-Mediated Angiogenisis
Robert Guzy, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
FGF Regulation of Myofibroblast Differentiation in Pulmonary Fibrosis
Mark Hepokoski, MD
University of California, San Diego
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Critical Care
Extracellular Mitochondrial DNA in ARDS Due to Sepsis
Edy Kim, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Critical Care
mTOR Drives Post-Sepsis Immunosuppression
Jinho Kim, PhD
Stevens Institute of Technology
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Regeneration of Donor Lungs Refused for Transplantation Through Targeted Cell Replacement
Sydney Montesi, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Collagen-targeted PET Imaging in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Crystal North, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Environmental Influences on Respiratory Disease: Interactions between Air Pollution and HIV
Sarah O'Beirne, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Small Airway Biology Underlying Enhanced Female Susceptibility to Smoking-Related Lung Disease
Franziska Rosser, MD, MPH
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Air Quality Index and Childhood Asthma: An Intervention
Christopher Schmickl, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Sleep
Rescuing OSA Patients Unable to Tolerate CPAP Using Endotype-Targeted Drug Therapy (RESCUE-Drug)
Daniel Schneider, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Influenza Modulates the Host Defense Function of Alveolar Macrophage-derived Extracellular Vesicles
Anna Volerman, MD
University of Chicago
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
An RCT of Virtual Teach-to-Goal versus Brief Instruction for Children with Asthma in Clinics
Gary Weissman, MD
University of Pennsylvania
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Critical Care
Human and System Factors Contributing to Delays in Antibiotics for Patients Suspected of Sepsis
Matt Zinter, MD
University of California, San Francisco
2019 ATS Foundation Unrestricted Grant: Pulmonary
Metatranscriptomic Evaluation of Lung Health in Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Candidates
MECOR Research Awards - $5,000
ATS Foundation MECOR Research Awards provide funding for outstanding graduates of the ATS Methods in Epidemiological, Clinical, and Operational Research (MECOR) Program to allow them to transition from trainees to investigators. MECOR graduates hail from developing countries around the globe, including Africa, Latin America, China, India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Vietnam. Learn more about MECOR.
Ignacio Esteban, MD
Hospital Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 ATS Foundation MECOR Award - $5,000
Survival of Pediatric Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in a Low and Middle-income Country
You can learn more about applying to the program here.
