 Each year, the National Psoriasis Foundation awards Discovery Grants and Translational Grants to support the start-up of new and innovative studies.NPF Discovery Grants are one-year awards up to $75,000 that fund researchers to explore preliminary ideas and conduct proof-of-concept experiments.The goal is to stimulate the development of new research programs in the field of psoriatic disease that are capable of competing for long-term funding from the National Institutes of Health or other agencies in the future.