Grants: Helping You Advance Health Care

Through our grants, researchers and community volunteers are revolutionizing lung health and improving patient care in communities throughout the world.

SUBMIT GRANT REPORTS

Grants: Helping You Advance Health Care

Through our grants, researchers and community volunteers are revolutionizing lung health and improving patient care in communities throughout the world.

SUBMIT GRANT REPORTS

Changing lives, transforming communities

Since 1996, we’ve supported more than 1,000 recipients and awarded $12 million in funding for grants that have had a positive impact on lung health.

Our grantees have improved screening for sleep disorders in pregnant women, increased access to lung transplants for underweight patients with COPD, and researched the connection between pulmonary arterial hypertension and the microbiome. Their work has touched many corners of the world, from south Sacramento, California, to Haiti and Peru.

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Grant opportunities

Applications for 2025 grant opportunities are now closed. Additional grants may open up throughout the year.

CLOSED GRANTS

CHEST 2025

CHEST 2025 Travel Grant

Grant amount: Free registration and $1,000 for travel costs

This grant will help 90 early career clinicians attend CHEST 2025 in Chicago, October 19 to 22.

Applications closed

RESEARCH

CHEST/ALA Guideline Implementation Research Grant for COPD Management

Grant amount: $120,000 over two years

This application is intended to support implementation research projects focused on evidence-based interventions (eg, identifying barriers/facilitators, smoking cessation, digital health tools, methods for reduced exposure to triggers) in those with COPD.

Applications closed

CHEST Equitable Community Health Impact Grant

Grant amount: $150,000 over three years

This grant is intended to provide support for the crucial relationship between health care institutions and community partners working together to advance equitable health outcomes for communities most impacted by lung health disparities.

Applications closed

COPD Research Grant

Grant amount: $30,000 over one year

Applications must address clinical, population, or community engagement/health services aspects of COPD with relevance to the prevention and/or reduction in morbidity or mortality associated with COPD.

Applications closed

John R. Addrizzo, MD, FCCP, Research Grant in Sarcoidosis

Grant amount: $20,000 over one year

Applications must address the pathophysiology, diagnosis, management, and/or treatment of sarcoidosis.

Applications closed

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Diseases/Bronchiectasis Research Grant

Grant amount: $30,000 over one year

Applications must address important and timely issues of nontuberculous mycobacteria diseases or bronchiectasis.

Applications closed

Sleep Medicine Research Grant

Grant amount: $50,000 over one year

Applications must address topics that advance sleep medicine and, ultimately, improve patient outcomes.

Applications closed

Women's Lung Health Disparities Grant

Grant amount: $10,000 over one year

Applications must address important and timely issues surrounding women’s lung health, including, but not limited to, diseases such as COPD and lung cancer.

Applications closed

Young Investigator Research Grant

Grant amount: $50,000 over one year

The purpose of this grant is to encourage and promote quality research in chest medicine by enabling promising investigators to begin their careers as independent research faculty members.

Applications closed

COMMUNITY IMPACT

CHEST Community Impact Grant Honoring D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP

Grant amount: $15,000 over one year

This grant supports significant community-based projects worldwide that demonstrate a clear positive impact on the lung health of a community and have the potential for long-term sustainability and reproducibility.

Applications closed

PARTNER GRANTS

MEDICAL EDUCATION

APCCMPD and CHEST Medical Educator Scholar Diversity Fellowship

RESEARCH

ALA/ATS/CHEST Respiratory Health Equity Research Award

PULMONARY FIBROSIS RESEARCH GRANT

David Nagel, MD, PhD

"What we found, at the in vitro level, is that this by-product actually promoted fibrotic signal changes."

READ DR. NAGEL’S STORY »

WOMEN'S LUNG HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANT

Chien-Ching Li, PhD, MPH

“Not many studies focus on identifying the risk factors with lung cancer associated with Chinese American [women who have never smoked]. This is why we want to focus on this area to provide more knowledge and make more contributions to research.”

READ DR. LI'S STORY »

CYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH GRANT

Kathleen Ramos, MD

“This grant was a very cool opportunity to investigate the effects of low BMI on access to transplant. The work from this grant was important when we wrote the expert consensus recommendations for the international transplant community.”

READ DR. RAMOS’ STORY »

COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT

Arzu Ari, PhD, FCCP

“Empowering junior faculty and clinicians to upskill their students and colleagues is clearly an excellent way to disseminate knowledge, and its impact on health care is invaluable.”

READ DR. ARI'S STORY »

COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT

Joseph Huang, MD

“Our graduates coordinate with [the Ministry of Health] on different policies, especially related to drug-resistant tuberculosis. They’re also training physicians in rural hospitals on basic skills in pulmonary and critical care medicine.”

READ DR. HUANG’S STORY »

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The strides our grantees have made in the chest medicine field wouldn’t be possible without support from our donors. Take an active role in championing lung health, and consider making a gift to support our research and community impact grants. Your gifts will make it possible for grantees to continue their work advancing science and improving the lives of those living with lung diseases.

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Changing lives, transforming communities

Grant opportunities

CLOSED GRANTS

CHEST 2025 Travel Grant

CHEST/ALA Guideline Implementation Research Grant for COPD Management

CHEST Equitable Community Health Impact Grant

COPD Research Grant

John R. Addrizzo, MD, FCCP, Research Grant in Sarcoidosis

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Diseases/Bronchiectasis Research Grant

Sleep Medicine Research Grant

Women's Lung Health Disparities Grant

Young Investigator Research Grant

CHEST Community Impact Grant Honoring D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP

PARTNER GRANTS

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