Bronchoscopy Research Grant
Bronchoscopy Research Grant supports clinical researchers studying robotic-assisted bronchoscopy to understand its effects on pulmonary disease diagnosis, management, and patient outcomes.
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Funder: Intuitive Foundation
Due Dates: June 5, 2026 (LOI, January 2027 funding) | September 7, 2026 (Full application, January 2027 funding) | January 4, 2027 (LOI, July 2027–June 2028 funding) | April 9, 2027 (Full application, July 2027–June 2028 funding)
Funding Amounts: Up to $75,000 (US) per project, for up to one year
Summary: Supports clinical research on robotic-assisted bronchoscopy’s effects on pulmonary disease diagnosis, management, and patient outcomes.
Key Information: Research must be conducted at nonprofit institutions; principal investigators cannot receive multiple grants simultaneously.
Description
The Intuitive Foundation’s Bronchoscopy Research Grant supports clinical research at nonprofit institutions worldwide examining how robotic-assisted bronchoscopy affects care for patients with pulmonary disease. Proposals should address important questions about diagnosis, disease management, or patient outcomes. Research interests include comparisons with alternative modalities or therapies, time to diagnosis, procedures needed, tissue acquisition and molecular markers, benign lung disease diagnosis, procedural efficiency, diagnostic yield, and adverse events.
Other interests include advanced imaging and navigation, health economics and outcomes, and procedures combining robotic-assisted bronchoscopy with emerging technologies. Examples include cone-beam CT, radial endobronchial ultrasound, fluoroscopic tomography, care costs, quality of life, patient- and clinician-reported outcomes, and ergonomic effects. These areas are encouraged rather than mandatory. For health-economic research, the Foundation strongly recommends including a health economist and identifying them in the application’s capabilities section.
