Funding Sources

Research on Alpha-1 is funded through a number of federal programs, including the National Institutes of Health and its institutes such as:

• The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Office of Rare Diseases
• National Institute of Nursing Research

Other sources of funding including industry support, private donors and organizations such as the Alpha-1 Foundation, American Lung Association, Foundation of the American Thoracic Society, Chest Foundation and American Liver Foundation. The Alpha-1 Foundation has partnered with each of these organizations, and the National Institutes of Health, to offer matching grants for research of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.

The National Institutes of Health website contains a searchable database listing of federally funded research projects and programs since 1972 which can be accessed at http://crisp.cit.nih.gov.