The Foundation names winners of education and training awards, career development research awards, and disease-targeted research grants
Rheumatologists Seek Public Vote for Research Grant Award
Brigham and Women’s docs compete for BRIght Futures Prize for personalized medicine research
Rheumatology Researchers Should Learn from their Lab Animals, Not Imitate Them
Rheumatologists, as a group, tend to be detail oriented, critical thinkers with strong opinions, and these same characteristics make them extremely rigorous as grant reviewers.
Cuts to NIH Funding Affect Programs and Careers
Medical schools tap philanthropic organizatinos and the VA for research dollars
REF and AF Partner to Provide an Additional “Bridge Funding”
Fostering promising investigators is imperative to the future of rheumatology, so when the ACR Research and Education Foundation (REF) board of directors discovered that outstanding applicants were not being funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) K-series grant program (the NIH’s career development award program) due to budgetary constraints, the REF quickly called a meeting with the Arthritis Foundation (AF) and the NIH to discuss a solution.
REF Reaches for a Cure
ACR Research and Education Foundation launches campaign to find RA cure
2007–2008 REF Award Recipients
The REF ensures the future of rheumatology by ensuring that there are well-trained rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals to provide quality care. To achieve this, REF maintains an extensive award and grant program with research, training, and education opportunities for medical students, fellows, clinicians, researchers, health professionals, and academic institutions.
A Helping Hand for Arthritis Discovery
Arthritis Foundation supports studies and the researchers behind them