The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields, who, together, may change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Between Fall 2023 and Summer 2026, we will dedicate $1 million to supporting small, early-stage grants of $2,500–$50,000 toward achieving this goal. We… Read more »
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields, who, together, may change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Between Fall 2023 and Summer 2026, we will dedicate $1 million to supporting small, early-stage grants of $2,500–$50,000 toward achieving this goal. We… Read more »
Award: Up to $500,000 over four years ($125,000/year) Deadline: December 4, 2025 (3:00 pm ET) Focus Areas: The call seeks to support creative approaches to healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including underlying mechanisms of normal pregnancy, preeclampsia, preterm birth, and late term pregnancy loss (projects focused on miscarriage at 10 weeks or less and infertility… Read more »
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is now accepting applications for the Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS). This highly competitive award provides $700,000 over five years to support physician-scientists at a critical transition in their careers—from advanced postdoctoral training to the early years of faculty service. CAMS is designed to: Protect time for high-impact research as… Read more »
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is now accepting applications for the Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS). This highly competitive award provides $700,000 over five years to support physician-scientists at a critical transition in their careers—from advanced postdoctoral training to the early years of faculty service. CAMS is designed to: Protect time for high-impact research as… Read more »
This unique funding opportunity supports researchers whose work aims to advance the field of regulatory science, particularly through innovations that will enhance decision-making processes and improve public health outcomes. The award is designed to support pioneering scientific approaches that address critical gaps in regulatory science, with funding of up to $500,000 over five years. We… Read more »
Awards foster the development and productivity of physician-scientists who are early in their careers and help them make the critical transition to becoming independent investigators. Application Deadline: October 17, 2023 Five-year $700,000 awards for physician-scientists bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented,… Read more »
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund wants to help advance the careers of underrepresented minority researchers in biomedical and medical research. We believe that diversity is essential to the process and advancement of scientific innovation, academic discourse, and public service. To find these talented scientists, we need your help. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has created the Postdoctoral… Read more »
Moving from training to satisfying employment, whether within academe or in other realms, can require skills not always learned at the bench. Surveys show that what employers want from potential Ph.D. job applicants is what graduate education means to provide: deep knowledge, hands-on experience, ability to ask meaningful questions and find answers to them, experience… Read more »
Five-year awards provide $500,000 to support accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues… Read more »
The initiative is designed to bring together a diverse interdisciplinary group with expertise in genetics/genomics, immunology, microbiology and proteomics along with the more traditional areas of parturition research such as maternal fetal medicine, obstetrics, and pediatrics to address scientific issues related to preterm birth. BWF will make up to five $600,000 grants to be paid… Read more »