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Infectious Disease
Application Deadline: November 3, 2008
Accepting electronic applications only.
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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has supported research in infectious
disease since 1981, when it began funding modern molecular approaches
to understanding what have been called the great neglected diseases
– malaria, the pathogenic fungi, and human parasites –
that primarily affect people in underdeveloped countries.
Since that time, much more attention has been paid to the urgent
needs of these fields. In 2000, the Fund decided to turn its attention
to the larger issues of human-pathogen interactions in these infectious
diseases and others, opening the door for funding work in bacterial
and viral diseases. BWF’s Investigators in the Pathogenesis of
Infectious Disease program is designed to incorporate elements of
previously funded areas of research, and to focus primarily on the
interaction of pathogens with their human hosts.
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Investigators
in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease