The Mark Flapan Award

The Mark Flapan Award is presented annually to a scleroderma researcher whose proposal for a research grant is ranked highly by the Peer Review Committee of the Scleroderma Foundation. Along with the Marta Marx Eradication of Scleroderma Award, the Flapan Award is one of the two highest ranking grant proposals as scored by the committee.

The award is named in honor of the late psychologist and scleroderma patient whose contributions to the Foundation’s publications and literature of scleroderma paved the way for greater patient understanding.