National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

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Partnerships with this Institute

Key Initiatives, Research Partners

The Biomarkers Consortium

This groundbreaking initiative expands the science of targeted medicine. The study of biomarkers creates the potential to individualize medical treatment by determining how a drug works in the body and identifying patients likely to respond to targeted medicines and therapies.

Program, Research Partners

SubPopulations and InteRmediate Outcome Measures In COPD Study (SPIROMICS)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic disease that makes it difficult for sufferers to breathe, causing coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and other symptoms. Affecting as many as 24 million people in the United States, the disease gradually worsens over time and is currently without a cure. Existing treatments can provide only moderate relief of symptoms.

Program, Research Partners

The Heart Truth® Community Action Grant Program

One in four American women dies of heart disease - making it the number-one killer of women. The Heart Truth® is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Completed Programs, Past Programs

Action to Cure Kidney Cancer (ACKC) Fellowship

Through the foundation, Action to Cure Kidney Cancer (ACKC) sponsored a postdoctoral candidate’s kidney cancer research in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Childs at The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

Education & Training

Children and Clinical Studies Campaign

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s newly launched Children and Clinical Studies campaign aims to educate families, caregivers, and the clinical community about the benefits and risks of participating in pediatric clinical studies.

Scholarships & Fellowships

Dean R. O'Neill Fellowship

This fellowship is provided by funds from the Dean R. O’Neill Renal Cell Cancer Research Fund.  It supports a promising, postdoctoral cancer investigator who will work for two to three years in the laboratory of tumor immunology headed by Dr. Richard Childs of the NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and will conduct research to further the quest to uncover more effective immunotherapies for the treatment for renal cell cancer.

Grants

The Heart Truth® Community Action Grant Program

In its third year, The Heart Truth® Community Action Grant Program aims to equip community organizations to assist women—especially those of color, low income, or in rural areas—in identifying personal risk factors for heart disease and motivating them to take action to lower their risk.

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