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Career Awards for Medical Scientists

Biomedical Sciences

• Postdoctoral Fellows
• Grant Amount: $700,000 over five years
• 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.

Career Awards for STEM Teachers

Science Education

• Teachers
• Grant Amount: $175,000 over five years
• The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Career Award for STEM Teachers recognizes outstanding STEM teachers in the 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 of STEM content.

  This award presents opportunities for professional development and collaboration with other master science and/or mathematics teachers who will help to ensure their success as teachers and their satisfaction with the field of teaching. The award offers schools and school districts the opportunity to fully develop and empower teachers as leaders in the field.

  Special consideration will be given to teachers working in hard-to-staff, economically deprived classrooms in North Carolina. Special consideration will also be given to efforts that integrate environmental science and climate change into STEM-related curricula.

  The Fund and the State Board of Education recognize that improving STEM education in North Carolina will require systemic revision of K-12 instruction.

  Teachers who are content-area experts and have the pedagogical skills are critical to ensuring a student’s success in understanding STEM subjects. These teachers can make a difference by serving as change agents, not only for their students but also for other educators across the state.

  The largest hurdle in accomplishing these goals has been a severe shortage of STEM teachers (even beyond North Carolina’s ongoing teacher shortage). In 2015, just 13 percent of the University of North Carolina system’s 4,675 newly prepared teachers were certified in computer science/technology, science, and mathematics.

Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative

Reproductive Sciences

• Faculty
• Grant Amount: $700,000 over a four-year period
• BWF’s Next Generation Pregnancy Award (NGP) provides up to $700,000 over a four-year period ($175,000 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.