Grants

Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers

Climate Change and Human Health

• Faculty, Institutions
• Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers will support the creation of interdisciplinary centers with the potential to make significant contributions to understanding, mitigating, and communicating (including through education) the complex relationship between climate change and human health.

Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards (CHI)

Climate Change and Human Health

• Faculty, Institutions
• Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards (CHI) supports interdisciplinary research connecting human and climate science. This program supports both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. This program sunsets in 2025.

Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants

Climate Change and Human Health

• Faculty, Institutions, K-12 Education, Postdoctoral Fellows, Teachers
• Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants (CCHH) fosters the exploration of ideas that have the potential to transform the impact of climate change on public health. This encompasses a wide range of areas, from fundamental scientific inquiries to applied science and technology, as well as human factors and community.

Resident Faculty Scholar

Biomedical Sciences

• Faculty, Graduate Students, K-12 Education, Postdoctoral Fellows, Teachers
• The Resident Faculty Scholar Grant Program will support a faculty member, or small groups of faculty members, at institutions in the United States or Canada, to utilize BWF Headquarters as a site for mini-sabbaticals/project incubation allowing the dedicated protected time to initiate or accelerate their work when aligned with BWF…

Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research

• The five-year awards provided $750,000 ($150,000 per year) to foster the development and productivity of established independent physician-scientists whose work bridges the gap between basic research and patient care. The awards were intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to explore fundamental scientific questions, to apply the resulting knowledge…

Promoting Innovation in Science and Mathematics

Science Education

• Teachers
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund supports teaching professionals in their efforts to provide quality hands-on, inquiry-based activities for their students. PRISM promotes excitement for science and mathematics in the classroom by providing funds for materials, equipment, and supplies related to the implementation of high-quality curriculum and activities in the classroom. This award…

Career Awards for STEM Teachers

Science Education

• Teachers
• The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Career Award for STEM Teachers recognizes outstanding STEM teachers in North Carolina public primary and secondary schools. The award provides $175,000 over five years and is available to North Carolina teachers who have an outstanding performance record in educating children and who demonstrate a solid knowledge…

Student STEM Enrichment Program

Science Education

• K-12 Education
• The Student STEM Enrichment Program (SSEP) supports diverse programs with a common goal: to enable primary and secondary students to participate in creative, hands-on STEM activities for K-12 students and pursue inquiry-based exploration in BWF’s home state of North Carolina. These awards provide up to $60,000 per year for three…

Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative

Reproductive Sciences

• Faculty
• Building upon the original goals of the BWF Preterm Birth Initiative, a recently convened Pregnancy Think Tank has helped shape the next generation of BWF preterm birth awards. Growing evidence suggests the interrelatedness of the duration of pregnancy, fetal growth, and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, intrauterine…

Innovation in Regulatory Science

Regulatory Science

• Faculty
• BWF’s Innovation in Regulatory Science Awards provides up to $500,000 over five years to academic investigators developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science that will ultimately inform the regulatory decisions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and others make.  We especially encourage applications from those seeking to advance…

Career Awards at the Scientific Interface

Interfaces in Science

• Postdoctoral Fellows
• BWF’s Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) provide $560,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These awards are open to U.S. and Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents.

Quantitative and Statistical Thinking in the Life Sciences

• The Burroughs Wellcome Fund announces a one-time award program providing support for faculty time spent on developing improved approaches to training graduate students for a more quantitative and statistically-informed approach to thinking and a more model-driven approach to doing research in the biomedical and related life sciences. Up to four…

Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences

• In 2008, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund launched an institutional award program supporting five-year institutional training awards providing $500,000 a year to bridge the gap between the population and computational sciences and the laboratory-based biological sciences.  The Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory-Based Sciences (PUP) award supported the training of researchers between existing concentrations of…

Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease

Infectious Diseases

• Faculty
• The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program provides opportunities for assistant professors to bring multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human infectious diseases. The program aims to provide opportunities for accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study what happens at the points where the systems…

Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program

Diversity in Science

• Postdoctoral Fellows
• Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP) provides a total of $60,000 over three years to support the career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in a degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada whose training and professional development are guided by mentors committed to helping them advance to stellar…

Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program

Diversity in Science

• Graduate Students
• The Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program provides $5,000 over two years to provide PhD students (enrolled in NC Institutions of Higher Education) with opportunities for greater science and research enrichment experiences. Up to ten awards will be granted for the 2025-2027 period.

Career Guidance for Trainees

Career Guidance

• Institutions
• Moving from training to satisfying employment, whether within academe or in other realms, can require skills not always learned at the bench. Helping trainees understand, acquire, and demonstrate skills that make them ready for complex careers should be the goal of submitted projects. The Career Guidance for Trainees (CGT) program…

Physician-Scientist Institutional Award

Biomedical Sciences

• Institutions
• The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is offering a second round of the Physician-Scientist Institutional Awards (PSIA) program which was instituted in 2017 to increase the number of single degree M.D.’s who enter research. One-Step full application submission will be used with proposals due February 15, 2019.

Collaborative Research Travel Grants

• The Collaborative Research Travel Grant (CRTG) program provides up to $15,000 in support for relatively unrestricted travel funds to academic scientists (faculty and postdocs) at U.S. or Canadian degree-granting institutions.  Grants must be used for domestic or international travel to another lab to learn new research techniques or begin or…

Career Awards for Medical Scientists

Biomedical Sciences

• Postdoctoral Fellows
• The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over five years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service.