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The American Asthma Foundation
The American Asthma Foundation is the only national organization devoted solely to asthma, a chronic condition affecting 25 million Americans.
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Our Unique Research Approach
The American Asthma Foundation funds innovative research through a grants program designed to recruit outstanding investigators from non asthma-related fields.
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Latest Breakthroughs
Read about the AAF-funded research that has already produced 26 major advances in understanding asthma; 14 with pharmaceutical company support. With virtually no improvements in the previous 5 decades, this large number of discoveries in only 11 years confirms the AAF’s approach to eradicating the asthma epidemic.
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Recent Updates and News
- Read about AAF Awardee, Dr. Serpil Erzurum, in Cleveland Clinic’s Fall 2011 issue of Catalyst.
- NIH awards $8 million grant to Washington University in St. Louis. Principal investigator, Michael J. Holtzman, MD, is a member of our Scientific Review Board.
- Executive Director, Betsy Biern, reflects on 2011 and the support from our generous donors in this end of year letter.
- Our 2010 Annual Report is now available.
- American Lung Association announces their 2011-2012 Research Awards Nationwide. ALA recently teamed up with AAF to present the Senior Investigator Award to Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Roger Tsien. Dr Tsien’s research will focus on proteases and their activity level in asthma.
- Check out our Fall issue of our newsletter, Breathing Matters, for a closer look at our cutting-edge research.
- Dr. Daniel Conrad, at Virginia Commonwealth University, is named one of the AAF’s 2011 Senior Investigator Awardees. Dr. Conrad is investigating how the immunity that causes asthma may be regulated by molecules from the nervous system.
August 31, 2011 - AAF selects Dr. Yaping Tu, from Creighton University, for one of its 2011 Early Excellence Awards to conduct research into identifying new targets for the treatment of asthma.
August 29, 2011 - American Asthma Foundation’s quarterly newsletter Breathing Matters is here. August 25, 2011
- American Asthma Foundation announces its 2011 Awardees. Read more about this year’s research projects.
August 11, 2011 - Research, partially funded by the AAF, shows that smoking during pregnancy is linked to persistent asthma in childhood.
August 25, 2011
