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Tuesday September 23, 2025 |
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A newsletter intended to provide researchers with the latest information about funding opportunities and research news from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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Join the CF Foundation’s GCMA Team at NACFC 2025! Grant Administrators, Principal Investigators, and Support Staff are invited to attend the live Grants Session on October 23 from 1:00–2:30 PM in Seattle, WA. This interactive session is designed to help you partner with peers, discover upcoming funding opportunities, and empower your team through every step of your CF Foundation awards. Register here to secure your seat, and don’t forget to reserve a virtual or in-person 1:1 office hour for personalized support on October 23–24.
- NEW: Tell us more about you! Our Grants Management System (GMS) has been updated with new features. In your User Profile (click on your initial in the top right corner), you can now provide your LinkedIn URL, pronouns, subject matter expertise (60 options to choose from!), and other biographical information. Check it out!
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New! PRIME Working Group Call for Membership Application. The mission of the CF Foundation Prioritizing Research in Mental Health (PRIME) Working Group is to advance our knowledge of mental health conditions in the CF population throughout the lifespan and promote clinical and translational research that will improve the understanding, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health concerns in CF. PRIME is a multi-disciplinary group and open to applications from (but not limited to) psychologists/neuropsychologists, psychiatrists and other physicians with an interest in CF mental health, social workers, basic/translational scientists, pharmacists, biostatisticians, or others with expertise that can contribute significantly to behavioral health clinical research. Researchers specializing in pain, neurocognition, substance use, and psychosocial aspects of aging are encouraged to apply. Applications must be submitted online at awards.cff.org by November 13, 2025. For questions, please contact Dara Riva ([email protected]) and Kayli Davis ([email protected]).
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New! The 2025 Path to a Cure Collaborative RFA seeks highly innovative proposals to address critical barriers to the development and use of gene therapies in CF. The Collaborative grant program is intended to bring between two and four independent research programs together to address critical basic and translational questions in support of gene therapy development. Applications for this program require pre-approval and are due on November 20, 2025, for spring 2026 project initiation. Questions can be addressed to Chris Penland ([email protected]) or Patrick Thibodeau ([email protected]).
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Please take our 5-minute Feedback Survey! CF Foundation Grants Team & System Feedback Survey.
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New! Register now: Post-ETI Workshop Series. CFF is hosting the virtual Post-ETI Workshop Series, occurring in five parts from August through December 2025. The series aims to: Share important learnings of the large, international post-ETI studies; Bring clinical and basic researchers together to help build collaborations and share ideas on future work; Evaluate clinical end points and other outcome measures and their performance in post-ETI era studies; and identify unanswered questions and approaches to address them, including potential contributing mechanisms.
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On October 8, we are hearing study data related to GI and Liver, Register here. Visit the series landing page to view past workshop recordings/slides (kickoff and lung/sinus health) and to register for future workshops (Infection/Immunity; Endocrine /metabolism /understudied and evolving topics.) Agendas, meeting materials, and meeting recordings will be added as they become available. For questions, please contact Dara Riva ([email protected]).
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Clinical Specimens and Resource Library: The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is creating a resource for investigators to connect about non-CF Foundation run-biobanks and labs from various institutions, widening the breadth of specimens and resources available for future research and collaboration. If you are interested in participating in this optional resource, please complete this form. For questions, reach out to Elizabeth Yu ([email protected]).
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For faster response times and assistance, use the Grant Assistance Request Form for general inquiries when you're unsure who to contact. Starting October 1, instead of emailing [email protected], use the request form instead. Your GCMA contacts, as listed in the system, will provide the quickest response.
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Call for Career Development Seminar Series Presentations. Are you a CFF-funded junior investigator or trainee? We will be continuing our virtual seminar series this year! If you have a CFF funded project and are a clinical fellow, post-doc, or junior faculty member, we want to give you an opportunity to present to the CF research community via virtual webinar. For questions, please contact Elizabeth Yu ([email protected]).
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Register for the CF Foundation's Grants Management System |
If you have questions about navigating the GMS, please visit our How-to guide!
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If you have any questions, please reach out to the Grants & Contracts Management & Administration (GCMA) Office at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at 301-841-2614. If you have any questions, please reach out to the Grants & Contracts Management & Administration (GCMA) Office at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at 301-841-2614. The inbox and voicemail are checked periodically. For faster service, we encourage you to use the Grant Assistance Request Form.
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