Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Career Awards for Medical Scientists
Grant Amount: $700,000 over five years
Deadline: October 8, 2024
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The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) addresses limited funding opportunities for physicians engaged in academic biomedical research. The CAMS award provides support to facilitate the transition from mentored position to independence for the early career physician scientists. The program is ideal for the physician scientist considering an academic career.
Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) CAMS is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 in support over five years for physician scientists (M.D., D.O., D.V.M., V.M.D., D.D.S.), who are committed to an academic career, to bridge postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease oriented, or translational research. Proposals in health services research or involving large-scale clinical trials are not eligible.
Proposals that incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning or climate change and human health are of particular interest.
- BWF believes that a diverse scientific workforce is essential to the process and advancement of research innovation, academic discovery and public service.
- BWF strongly encourages applications from persons who have been historically underrepresented in the research enterprise, including but not limited to: women BWF CAREER AWARDS FOR MEDICAL SCIENTISTS (CAMS) of any ethnic or racial group; any person identifying as Black or African American, Latino/a or Hispanic American, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, indigenous to the Pacific Islands, indigenous Canadian; persons with disabilities; persons from disadvantaged backgrounds (see https://grants.nih. gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-031.html for examples). BWF also strongly encourages individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+ to apply.
- BWF seeks institutional and geographic diversity. Applicants at academic or research institutions that have received few or no BWF grants to date are encouraged to apply.
- There are many training paths that can prepare candidates for a career as a physician scientist, and BWF seeks to ensure that CAMS awardees reflect this. Therefore, special consideration will be given to single degree physician-scientists (M.D., D.O., D.V.M., V.M.D., D.D.S.) as well as dual degree physician-scientists who have not historically been well represented in our applicant or awardee pool (D.V.M., Ph.D., D.O., Ph.D., D.D.S., Ph.D., M.D., M.S., M.D., M.P.H., etc).
Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.
Kenneth Rainin Foundation: Innovator Awards Program
Grant Amount: Grants of up to $150,000 for projects by individual researchers and up to $300,000 for collaborative projects involving multiple investigators
Deadline: Letter of Inquiry due September 30, 2024
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The Kenneth Rainin Foundation invites applications for its Innovator Awards Program, which supports basic, translational, and clinical science that could lead to transformative discoveries for the prediction, diagnostics, treatment, and prevention of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Grants of up to $150,000 for projects by individual researchers and up to $300,000 for collaborative projects involving multiple investigators will be awarded.
Researchers worldwide working in any scientific discipline are eligible for funding. Those who typically receive funding hold advanced degrees (MD, PhD, or the equivalent) and academic positions at universities, medical centers, or research institutions. Nonprofits must not be classified as a private foundation under section 509(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. For-profit institutions must demonstrate that their proposed project furthers the Rainin Foundation’s charitable mission of promoting scientific and medical research.
Letters of inquiry are due September 30, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. PT and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal by February 3, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. PT.
Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.