- Hard Advocacy Work Pays Off for Lupus!The U.S. Senate just voted 85 to 7 to approve the $2 billion budget increase Lupus Research Alliance advocates requested for medical research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This increase of 5.4 percent would bring the budget for the NIH up to $39,084,000,000.
The Wow Moment“I went to a Lupus Research Alliance breakfast to hear what the researchers were saying and that was the wow moment for me,” describes Sarita Connelly. “I'm very optimistic because there are new developments every day.”Watch this video to learn how Sarita was diagnosed and why she “depends” on the Lupus Research Alliance.
Hearst Foundations Awards Health Grant to Lupus Research AllianceThe Lupus Research Alliance is proud to once again be awarded the Health Grant from the Hearst Foundations. In the amount of $150,000, the Health Grant will help support two promising investigators relatively new to lupus who were recently awarded our Novel Research Grants, Drs. Andrea Knight and Vipin Kumar.
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