National Blood Foundation Scientific Research Grants Program

National Blood Foundation Scientific Research Grants Program Submit the application by 11:59pm ET December 31, 2014. Application fee of $150 must accompany the application unless the primary investigator is an AABB individual member. The National Blood Foundation annually awards grants for one or two-year research projects, with a maximum award per grant of $75,000. NBF is pleased to announce the availability of funding in 2015 for scientific research projects related to transfusion medicine and cellular therapies. NBF will award grants for investigator-initiated original research in all aspects of blood banking, transfusion medicine, cellular therapies and patient blood management. Important areas of research for the grant program include: IMMUNOLOGY Alloimmunization, immune modulation, and tolerance Animal models for the study of graft-vs-host disease Biology of autoimmune hemolytic anemia HEMATOLOGY Autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplants Detection of residual disease following stem cell transplants Effects of growth factors in vitro and in vivo Biochemistry of coagulation factors IMMUNOHEMATOLOGY Blood group serology Biochemistry of red cell antigens Molecular genetics of the blood groups INFECTIOUS DISEASES Studies on Lyme disease, West Nile Virus, SARS and babesiosis and other emerging diseases Effect of allogeneic transfusion in HIV-infected and immunocompromised patients Im...
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