Each year, the CHEST Foundation offers grants to worthy research candidates, generous community service volunteers, and distinguished scholars. In 2020, the foundation awarded just over one million dollars in clinical research and community service grants.
Dr. Kristina Montemayor, instructor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, received a CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Cystic Fibrosis for her proposal "The Association of Sex Hormones and Respiratory Morbidity in Individuals with Cystic Fibrosis."
Dr. Trishul Siddharthan, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, received a CHEST Foundation Community Service Grant for his proposal "Establishing a Pulmonary and Critical Care Training Program in Uganda."