Grants Guide/Awards for Postdoctoral Fellows

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is committed to supporting the early careers of promising scientists. Toward this end, the Fund has developed two programs that are designed for advanced postdoctoral scientists to help make the transition to a faculty appointment:

Career Awards for Medical Scientists

These awards are targeted toward medically trained individuals whose research proposal is in basic biomedical, disease-oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or pharmacological epidemiology research, and who intend to pursue careers in academia.

Career Awards at the Scientific Interface

These awards are targeted toward researchers whose doctoral training is in one of the physical, chemical or computational sciences and who intend to pursue academic research doing work that addresses biological questions.