American Lung Association Awards $50K for Regenerative Medicine Project

That's a cost of $49 billion per year...

An estimated 30 million Americans in 2014 / 2015 afflicted. If each of us gave a dollar to research, that would be $30 million. That might make a dent but it's unlikely 50k will.

Here's the clincher:
The American Lung Association has committed $11.55 million in funding to support research aimed at lessening the burden of lung disease.

In other words, thousands to stop/reverse COPD but millions to continue researching techniques to maintain the disease.

We should all donate $1 (or more) to Chen, the ALA grant winner, and professor of medicine, stem cell biology, and regenerative medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) so our money goes directly to the research and not administrators.

A GoFundMe page would work but they also collect unearned money. I wonder if there's a way we can ask the researchers directly how we can support their work to stop and or reverse COPD.

Anybody else in?

Hi @kerrysworld! Thank you so much for continuing to bring important research updates to our community. We too are frustrated at the disproportionate lack of funding for COPD research at-large and are excited about some of the cutting-edge possibilities like the one you mentioned here. Thanks again for stopping by and wishing you a wonderful day. - John M. (COPD.net Team)