The New York Jets and Lupus Research Alliance will host Lupus Awareness Day on October 29, 2017, at MetLife Stadium when the Jets take on the Atlanta Falcons. This event is designed to increase awareness of the devastating autoimmune disease and help raise funds for lupus biomedical research. To further this goal, Lupus Research Alliance staff and volunteers will collect donations from fans entering the stadium gates specifically to fund lupus research programs.
The Jets are deeply committed to supporting the Lupus Research Alliance, the world’s leading private funder of lupus research. The organization was created in 2016 from the merger of three lupus-focused organizations who held the common belief that funding the most innovative and novel investigatory science in the world is the key to curing lupus.