The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists 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.
These career awards are five-year, $700,000 awards for physician-scientists to 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.
Candidate eligibility and institutional nomination requirements are available at this website. Please contact Scott Palmer, MD, vice chair for research, if you are interested in being nominated by Duke for this award.
[box type="alert"]Duke internal deadline: 8/8/2013 (BWFund deadline is 10/1/2013).[/box]
For other BWFund grant programs, see www.bwfund.org