Funding Sources

Research on COPD 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 Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• National Institute of Nursing Research

Other sources of funding including industry support, private donors and organizations such as the COPD Foundation, Alpha-1 Foundation, Foundation of the American Thoracic Society, and the Chest Foundation.

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

Other funding sources include:

• Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• American Respiratory Care Foundation
• European Respiratory Society (ERS)
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Canadian Institute of Health Research
• National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
• British Lung Foundation