Call for Research Grants: Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation

Call for Research Grants: Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation The Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation (CARF) seeks original, focused, and innovative research grant applications dealing with primary cicatricial alopecia (PCA). Applications will be accepted from laboratories around the world. The proposed project must serve to further CARF's research goals, namely, to understand the pathogenesis of PCA, an understanding that will lead to effective prevention and therapy. CARF will give priority to research proposals based on the following topics. Please see the attached review criteria at the end of the application that reviewers will use to evaluate the applications. • Role of lipids and lipid metabolism in normal hair follicle stem cell biology and cycling. • Role of PPARs and other lipid regulators in the pathogenesis of PCA • Role of peroxisomes in hair follicle biology • Role of neuroinflammation in PCA • Role of environmental triggers in the pathogenesis of PCA • Function of sebaceous glands in normal hair follicle biology • Mechanism of hair shaft egress from the terminal hair follicle • Hair follicle regeneration in a site of tissue repair • Studies that focus on the prevalence, incidence and natural history of disease GUIDELINES: All applications for grant requests should clearly state research goals, rationale, brief background, and brief experimental protocol. The p...
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