Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: inquire with unit
Memorial Deadline: Tuesday 10th, October 2023
External Deadline: Tuesday 17th, October 2023
Description
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, or translational research. Proposals in health services research or involving large-scale clinical trials are ineligible. Awards are made to degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada on behalf of the awardee.
Updates:
- Eligibility begins post-clinical training (residency or fellowship) and stops at receipt of a tenure-track offer letter.
- We encourage applications from researchers with historically excluded backgrounds in medicine & research.
- We encourage applicants from single-degree MD-applicants & dual-degree applicants that are non-MD/PhD .
- We are in a new grants management system, and applications and will now include a budget section to be completed.
Please read the full Request for Proposals available on this website.
For other grant programs, see www.bwfund.org