Greetings!   

Discovering New Avenues for Hope.  This weekend marks the annual meeting of the Scleroderma Foundation's

Peer-Review Committee. This committee, composed of medical experts on scleroderma from around the world, helps determine which proposals will be funded each year by reading, critiquing, and ranking all applications.

Research is a vital part of the three-fold mission of the Scleroderma Foundation.  What makes the Scleroderma Foundation both unique and progressive has much to do with its commitment to scleroderma research. Funding quality research projects is a top priority of the Foundation, and we continue the long-standing tradition of making research our single largest budgetary expense each year.  An average of $1 million dollars is awarded in research grants annually.

Inherent in each Scleroderma Foundation research grant is the hope that our funds will make a significant difference to a researcher whose investigation may lead to finding the cause -- and ultimately a cure. 

The Scleroderma Foundation and its predecessor organizations have funded nearly $18 million in research grants since 1989.

Read about the 2011 grant recipients and their proposals in the next issue of the Foundation's Voice magazine coming out in February 2011!  (To receive the magazine, please become a member or renew your membership by clicking here!)