Funding, News and Announcements

Upcoming Deadlines
  

• The CFF Fellowship Program Award is open to receive applications. The intent of this program is to fund fellowship programs in order to encourage specialized training in the early career development stage, provide exposure to CF research and patient care, and to prepare well-qualified candidates for careers related to CF. Specifically, the CFF is looking for programs to incorporate significant time/exposure in outpatient CF clinics into the first and second-year fellow curriculum. Application Deadline: September 4, 2024. For questions contact Elizabeth Yu (eyu@cff.org).
• Deadline Extension! The CFF Fellowship Program Award is open to receive applications. The intent of this program is to fund fellowship programs in order to encourage specialized training in the early career development stage, provide exposure to CF research and patient care, and to prepare well-qualified candidates for careers related to CF. Specifically, the CFF is looking for programs to incorporate significant time/exposure in outpatient CF clinics into the first and second-year fellow curriculum. Application Deadline: September 11, 2024. For questions contact Elizabeth Yu (eyu@cff.org).
• With the growing number of adults with cystic fibrosis, the CF Foundation's Program for Adult Care Excellence (PACE) is accepting applications through November 1, 2024. The PACE program is a 3-year career development award for physicians interested in adult CF care. Pulmonologists, internists, med/peds, and family practitioners with five or less years of CF clinical experience (not including training) are eligible to apply. Review the 2024 PACE policies and guidelines for the full details. Applications will be accepted through awards.cff.org until November 1, 2024.

Newly Published RFAs
 

• New! The Clinical Research Award and Clinical Pilot and Feasibility Award Spring 2025 cycle RFAs was published on August 28, 2024. Letter of intents must be submitted online at awards.cff.org by October 10, 2024. For questions, please contact Dara Riva (driva@cff.org).

Programmatic Updates
 

• New! We are excited to announce our upcoming Grants Management Townhall on September 9^th, 2024, at 1 pm ET. This webinar is dedicated to supporting CFF grantee teams with practical guidance and recent updates to utilize the Grants Management System (GMS) more effectively. Register here to best prepare your team for any questions you may have prior to NACFC 2024.
• 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 Emily Zagnit (ezagnit@cff.org).
• Ghost Reviewer Invitation. If you have an interest in gaining experience as a CF Foundation reviewer, please consider signing up to serve as a ghost reviewer. Ghost reviewers have the opportunity to review application that fit with their area of interest, complete a critique, and compare their review with the assigned committee members'. Ghost reviewers will have the option to join the review meeting to observe. Providing interest here does not guarantee opportunities to ghost review. Program Officers will invite ghost reviewers as appropriate. For questions, please contact Elizabeth Yu (eyu@cff.org).

Register for the CF Foundation's Grants Management System
 

Are you interested in applying for a CF Foundation grant? All funding opportunities are managed in the CF Foundation Grants Management System (GMS) https://awards.cff.org. Login or Register to see available opportunities!

If you have questions about navigating the GMS, please visit our How To Guide!

General information for Applicants and Awardees

Please reach out to the Grants & Contracts Office at grants@cff.org if you have any questions.

Questions?

For general questions about any program, please contact the CF Foundation Grants and Contracts Management  and Administration (GCMA) Office at grants@cff.org or 301-841-2614.