Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative

BWF’s Next Generation Pregnancy Award (NGP) provides up to $500,000 over a four-year period ($125,000 per year) to individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. For the 2025-2026 cycle, BWF has updated the NGP priority areas to support projects that include normal pregnancy, preeclampsia, preterm birth, and late term pregnancy loss (note: projects focused on miscarriage at 10 weeks or less and infertility-related loss are beyond the scope of this mechanism). BWF especially welcomes applications focused on subtyping adverse pregnancy outcomes, investigating maternal–fetal interactions, and integrating animal models with clinical outcomes.

Postdoctoral Enrichment Program

Postdoctoral 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 careers in biomedical or medical research.

Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants

Small grants to promote the growth of new connections between scholars, practitioners, educators, and/or communicators working to understand, spread the word about, and mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health.

Review will be conducted quarterly. After each quarterly review, we will support, decline, or send proposals back to applicants for revision, but may hold some proposals over for a future review. Recommended revisions may include suggestions that separate groups of applicants submitting similar proposals work together to develop a single proposal or that applicants consider becoming involved in efforts aligned with work funded in earlier quarters.

Career Guidance for Trainees

BWF’s Career Guidance for Trainees program this year will offer a career development workshop for early career administrators whose work focuses on the career development of PhD scientists. The workshop will focus on developing participants’ research evaluation skills while creating new career-focused interventions or activities for use at the participants’ home institutions. In the year following the workshop, participants will each develop their research and evaluation networks, develop and run their project with support from a $15,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, submit their results for presentation at a national meeting, and rigorously prepare a manuscript for publication.

Applications for a seat in the workshop are due May 11.