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Institutional Award Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences

Support for U.S. and Canadian Institutions

Letter of Intent Deadline for 2009 Awards: March 3, 2008

Dear Colleague:

I am sharing the attached brochure describing Burroughs Wellcome Fund's (BWF) new institutional training program—Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences—in the hope that you will help us develop a new cadre of scientists working at the connections between population approaches to human health and basic biomedical research.

The awards will provide $500,000 a year for five years in order to stimulate institutional training programs that partner researchers working in schools of medicine and schools (or academic divisions) of public health.

Understanding human health will be a focal priority for the programs that are funded. There is ample room for building on institutional strengths to achieve this focus, for example: institutional interests in chronic diseases, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, genetic diseases, toxicology, reproductive health, and other areas where questions relating to human health are ripe for exploration at both the population and molecular scales. Likewise, institutional strengths in applied mathematics and modeling, statistics, genomics, bioinformatics and other informatics and data-driven sciences including geography and demographics, and phenomic approaches could provide excellent foundations for programs that encourage such work.

Please share this information with researchers at your institution. Please note that the deadline for electronic receipt of letters of intent is March 3, 2008. We encourage candidates to read instructions carefully. If you have questions, contact Jean Kramarik, senior program associate, at 919/991-5122.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. We are not affiliated with any corporation.

Sincerely,

Enriqueta C. Bond, Ph.D.
President

Brochure download (PDF) | Program Information

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Institutional Award Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences

Support for U.S. and Canadian Institutions Letter of Intent Deadline for 2009 Awards: March 3, 2008

Support for U.S. and Canadian Institutions

Letter of Intent Deadline for 2009 Awards: March 3, 2008