Sponsor
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF)
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Pre-proposal and Application Instructions
Description
The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease program provides opportunities for assistant professors to bring multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human infectious diseases. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for accomplished investigators still early in their careers to study what happens at the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect. The program supports research that sheds light on the fundamentals that affect the outcomes of these encounters: how colonization, infection, commensalism, and other relationships play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones.
The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained.
Eligibility
The ideal candidate is an accomplished investigator at the mid-to-late assistant professor level with an established record of independent research in a tenure-track position or its well-supported equivalent in non-tenure offering departments. Citizens and non-citizen permanent and temporary residents of the U.S. and Canada who are legally qualified to work in the U.S. or Canada are eligible.
Maximum Project Value
$500,000
Project Duration
five years
Special Notes
BWF staff will hold a final conference call for applicants who have questions about the program:
Dates: June 26, 2017
Time: 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Dial in number for all calls: 800-247-5110
Passcode for all calls: BWF
Deadlines
If College-level review is required, your College will communicate its earlier internal deadlines.
| Type | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
External Deadline | Pre-proposal: PI to submit through pre-proposal submission site. All applicants will be required to complete a web-based questionnaire assessing their eligibility to apply for this award. If eligibility criteria are met, applicants will be automatically directed to the web-based pre-proposal application. It is strongly recommended that potential applicants review the Request for Pre-proposals (see for more information above) before accessing the eligibility questionnaire. | |
Internal Deadline | If Invited: PI to submit a copy of application including signature page and a complete OR5 form to: research.services@uoguelph.ca | |
External Deadline | If Invited: Instructions on how to prepare a full research proposal will be provided by email by the sponsor along with the invitation to participate. |