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 of inquiry and higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing the biochemical, pharmacological, immunological, and molecular biological understanding of how microbes and the human body interact.
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Applicants are always encouraged to contact the program officer directly about their planned proposal, their competitiveness for the award, or other questions. The program officer, Victoria McGovern, Ph.D., can be reached at vmcgovern@bwfund.org or 919-991-5112.
As a supplement to direct conversations with the program officer, BWF staff will hold three conference calls between August and October, 2013 for applicants relatively new to preparing faculty-level grants and for interested administrators. These calls will both disseminate general information and reinforce the message that calling program staff individually with questions is a good thing to do.
The conference calls will be held August 22, September 18, October 15
Time: 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Dial in number for all calls: 1-800-311-9406 or 1-334-323-7224
Passcode for all calls: 81114