The American Thoracic Society is pleased to announce the grant and award recipients for the 2023-2024 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.
Saramaria Afanador Castiblanco, MD
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
ATS/Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Research Grant in Nasal High Flow - $100,000
Effect of Nasal High Flow on Exercise Tolerance and Ventilation Distribution in COPD Patients
Hilary Faust, MD, MS
University of Wisconsin
ATS/CSL Behring Innovation GmbH Research Grant in ARDS - $50,000
Role of mtDNA and TLR9 in Sepsis-Associated ARDS
Sophie Huddart, PhD
University of California San Francisco
ALA/ATS/CHEST Foundation Respiratory Health Equity Research Award - $200,000
Harnessing Digital Health Tools to Advance Tuberculosis Patient Monitoring
Stephen Spurgin, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
ATS/Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia (ACDMPV) Research Grant (co-funded by the ACDA & David Ashwell Foundation) - $100,000
Role of Primary Cilia in FOXF1-Directed Pulmonary Vascular Development
Yang Zhou, PhD
Brown University
The Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network Inc. Research Grant in Immune Responses in HPS-ILD - $80,000
Innate Immune Responses in a Mouse Model of HPS that Develops Spontaneous Lung Fibrosis
ATS Diversity Grant
The ATS is committed to supporting diversity in the next generation of researchers and clinicians. This award recognizes an outstanding investigator working in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine that is from a population underrepresented in the U.S. research enterprise, as defined by the NIH.
Rafael Paez, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Unrestricted/Diversity - $40,000
Cone Beam Assisted Robotic Interventional Study: A Pragmatic Endpoint Clustered Randomized Trial
ATS Unrestricted Research Grants
The ATS 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.
Malik Bisserier, PhD
New York Medical College
Unrestricted - $40,000
LSD1 as a Target for Restoring Endothelial Cell Function for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Joseph Cooley, DO
National Jewish Health
Unrestricted - $40,000
Synergy between BCL2 Inhibition and Nintedanib to Treat Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis
Kevin Duan, MD, MS
University of British Columbia
Unrestricted - $40,000
Evaluation Platform in COPD for USA (EPIC-USA)
Christina Eckhardt, MD, MS
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Unrestricted - $50,000
Identifying Exosomic Signatures of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Catherine Gao, MD
Northwestern University
Unrestricted - $40,000
Machine Learning to Predict the Development of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Katrina Hauschildt, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Unrestricted - $40,000
Abortion Bans Impacts on Pulmonary and Critical Care (AB-IMPACT)
