About Uniting Against Lung Cancer

Uniting Against Lung Cancer (UALC) is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to funding innovative research that enables patients, smokers and non-smokers alike, to win their battles with lung cancer and live healthy, cancer-free lives years after diagnosis. With our partners around the country, we raise awareness of the facts of lung cancer in order to eliminate the stigma that surrounds the disease and raise critical funds for research.

Our organization’s key objective is to fund innovative lung cancer research that will lead to a cure. To date we have awarded $7.4 million to academic investigators engaged in innovative lung cancer research across the country. Our program focuses on funding research with the potential to make a significant impact on treatment and a cure, including translational projects and high risk/high reward science. We strive to attract the best and brightest researchers at all career levels to the field of lung cancer and support open collaboration among institutions.

Our research investment is guided by our Medical Committee, composed of top physicians and researchers from the nation’s leading universities and cancer centers. We measure our success based on scientific progress, follow-on funding and an increase in the number of promising investigators entering the field of lung cancer research. Our grantees have risen to become the field’s leading experts, and have garnered over $40 million to date in follow-on funding to support their research.

With our partners, UALC holds events around the country that raise awareness and put a face to lung cancer. From walks, races and dinners to our signature event Kites for a Cure®, we empower our partners to make a difference.

Lung cancer remains severely underfunded and misunderstood by the public. Anyone can get lung cancer, including never-smokers and those who have quit smoking.

At Uniting Against Lung Cancer, we’re speaking at the top of our lungs on behalf of all those affected by lung cancer.