The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS). This award supports early-career physician-scientists as they transition from mentored training to independent research careers.
Thirteen physician-scientists have been selected for this year’s award. Each recipient will receive $700,000 over five years to advance research at the intersection of clinical practice and biomedical science.
“It is our honor and privilege to support these dedicated and deserving physician-scientists at a pivotal moment in their careers and amid broader uncertainty across the research landscape,” said Dr. Paige Cooper Byas, CAMS program officer at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
The CAMS program reflects the Fund’s long-standing support for early-career researchers and its commitment to strengthening the pipeline of physician-scientists in academic medicine.
The list of 2025 award recipients follows:
Anand Bhagwat, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Novel mechanisms of acute myeloid leukemia resistance to cell therapy
Aaron Bodansky, MD
University of California-San Francisco
Overcoming Pediatric Viral-Induced Critical Illness
Walter Chen, MD, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Defining the functions of uncharacterized organellar proteins
Nicolas Gomez-Banoy, MD
Rockefeller University
Unraveling genetic determinants of thermogenic adipose tissue in humans
Max Horlbeck, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Mechanisms and treatability of neurodevelopmental disorders of chromatin biology
Peggy Hsu, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
On the origin of ALK-driven lung cancer
Sakeen Kashem, MD, PhD
University of California-San Francisco
Immunological modulation of pain
Kaitlin Katsura, DDS, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Macrophages in tooth development
Sumeet Khetarpal, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mining and modulating the heart secretome of exercise for therapeutic gain in heart failure
John Pluvinage, MD, PhD
University of California-San Francisco
Autoimmune Regulation of Cognition in Encephalitis, Neurodegeneration, and Aging
Tara Reid, MD, PhD
University of Washington
Define the role of Treponema pallidum-specific humoral responses during infection
Eric Song, MD, PhD
Yale University
Lymphatic control of neural and ocular immune responses
Sarah Urbut, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bayesian Mixture Models for Genetic Discovery of Complex Disease over Time
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