HSF Grant Opportunities - closed for 2024 but will re-open in Fall 2024 for the 2025 cycle

HSF is proud to offer the following grants to advance HS research and improve the lives of patients.

Danby Research Grant 

The Danby Research Grant encourages research into the disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). The goal is the development of new clinical and translational lines of investigation in the field of HS that further patient care.

Applicants may request $5,000—20,000 per year (direct costs only) which should be used within the one-year project period. 

Number of awards: 5 per year

Application deadline: December 9, 2024 

Award Notification: AAD Annual Meeting - March, 2025 

Project Period: June 1, 2025 – May 31, 2026 

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Translational Research Grant 

The Translational Research Grants are open to applications that stimulate and support novel research ideas in the field of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) capable of competing for long-term funding from the National Institutes of Health or other agencies in the future. 

Applicants may request up to $75,000 per year (direct costs only). 

Number of awards: 1-2 per year

Application deadline: December 9, 2024 

Award Notification: AAD Annual Meeting - March, 2025 

Project Period: June 1, 2025 – May 31, 2026 

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Mentored Experience Grant 

The purpose of this grant is to develop clinical and procedural skills as well as mentoring relationships between trainees and HS experts that might not otherwise be possible due to distance or funding. Awardees will learn to manage patients with HS under the mentorship and direction of an HSF leader. Awardees may also discuss opportunities to conduct and publish research related to HS. 

Awardees will receive up to $2,000 for direct expenses associated with spending up to four weeks working in-person and being mentored by an HSF leader. 

Application deadline: December 16, 2024 

Award Notification: AAD Annual Meeting - March, 2025 

Project Period: June 1, 2025 – May 31, 2026 

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Grants & Scholarships News

 

HS Foundation’s HS CAPE (Community Awareness and Patient Empowerment) Program Request for Proposals

January 9, 2023

The goal of the CAPE grant is to stimulate the development of programs that increase disease awareness, provide support to patients and caregivers, improve patient care or benefit patients with HS in other ways. Typical awards will be for up to $2,000 but proposals for up to $5,000 will be considered (direct costs only, regardless of the amount of the award). Award amount is contingent upon the availability of funds and the receipt of sufficiently meritorious applications.
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Interview with 2017 HSF Danby Grant Recipient Amanda Nelson, PhD

December 1, 2022

Learn about 2017 Danby Grant Recipient Amanda Nelson, PhD and her winning project which investigated whether skin stem cells were misplaced and abnormally active in HS lesions.
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Interview with 2021 HSF Danby Grant Recipient Dr. Carmelo Carmona-Rivera, PhD

December 1, 2022

Learn about 2021 Danby Grant Recipient Dr. Carmelo Carmona-Rivera, PhD and his winning project which aimed to find disease-causing interactions between cells or between cells and NETs.
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Interview with 2018 HSF Danby Grant Recipient Angel Byrd, MD PhD

October 4, 2022

Learn about Danby Grant Recipient Angel Byrd, MD PhD and her winning project which aimed to establish a biorepository of HS tissue samples to better understand the disease.
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Interview with 2020 HSF Danby Grant Recipient Dr. Lauren Orenstein

October 4, 2022

Learn about Dr. Lauren Orenstein's Danby Award-winning project which studied patterns of health care utilization and opioid prescription use among patients with hidradenitis suppurativa.
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2019 HSF Danby Grant Awardee Dr. Abrar Qureshi Interview

August 9, 2022

HSF Danby Grant Funding Helps Develop a Useful Screening Tool for HS
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Interview with 2018 Danby Grant Recipient Dr. Tina Porter

June 3, 2022

Dr. Alexander Charrow interviews Dr. Tina Porter, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and 2018 Danby Grant Recipient, about her research on treating hidradenitis tunnels.
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2022 Danby Awards

June 3, 2022

The HSF is pleased to announce the awarding of four Danby Research Grants in 2022, the most ever offered by the Foundation. These researchers are proposing exciting research initiatives in HS.
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An Interview with 2019 Danby Research Grant Awardee John Frew, MBBS, PhD

June 2, 2022

Get to know the 2019 recipient and how his project aimed to identify potential clinical and therapeutic biomarkers of HS disease activity.
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Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation Danby Research Grants

May 25, 2021

For the past five years, the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation (HSF) has proudly sponsored up to $10,000 for research projects that will have a sustained, powerful influence on our understanding of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS).
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