Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program – LOI

Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery

Deadlines

Academic Unit: Inquire with unit

Memorial Deadline: Friday 10th, July 2026

External Deadline: Thursday 16th, July 2026


Description

The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program provides opportunities for assistant professors to bring multidisciplinary approaches to studying human infectious diseases. The program aims to provide accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level with opportunities to study what happens at the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect. The program supports research that sheds light on the fundamentals that affect the outcomes of these encounters: how colonization, infection, commensalism, and other relationships play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones.

PATH is a highly competitive award program that provides $505,000 over five years to study pathogenesis. The program intends to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing our understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained.

Letter of Intent deadline:  July 16, 2026
Invited Full Proposal deadline:  November 12, 2026

See here for information.


Funding Sources

Burroughs Wellcome Fund



This opportunity was posted by: RGCS

Last modified: June 16, 2026