Five-year awards provide $500,000.

BSD Internal deadline: August 2, 2010

Agency deadline: November 1, 2010

The purpose of this award is to provide opportunities for accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the intersection of human and microbial biology. The program is intended to shed light on the overarching issues of how human hosts handle infectious challenge. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry and higher-risk research projects that hold potential for advancing significantly the biochemical, pharmacological, immunological, and molecular biological understanding of how infectious agents and the human body interact.

Eligibility criteria:

• Candidates will generally have an MD, DVM, or PhD degree
• Candidates must have an established record of independent research and hold a tenure-track position as an assistant professor or equivalent (at the time of application) at a degree-granting institution
• Candidates must be nominated by accredited, degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada
• Applications from non-tenure track investigators will not be accepted.
• Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada at the time of application
• Candidates at the appropriate career stage who have held or are currently holding a Burroughs Wellcome Fund award must contact BWF in advance to determine eligibility for this program

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Submit the following materials as a Word or PDF attachment via email to hlawrenc@bsd.uchicago.edu by 12 pm on the due date.

Required Materials

1. Biosketch of no more than two pages


2. Brief, half-page research summary of the work you propose doing for the specific funding opportunity


3. Eligibility statment - Please include a statement of eligibility for the specific award you are applying to. If the requirements state you must be a tenure track professor appointed to your first faculty position no earlier than July 1, 2007, then you should include your start date and current rank.


4. Award specific requirements - Refer to each opportunity's guidelines for the additional information we may need for a particular award. Examples include naming faculty who will write letters of recommendation or identifying a faculty mentor.

Formatting and Submission

1. Format your application as either a Word document or an Adobe PDF file.
   
2. If possible, submit your application as one attached file.
   
3. On every page, please include your full name and the name of the award you are applying to in the header or footer of the document.


4. Email your application to hlawrenc@bsd.uchicago.edu.

* Review and Notification: All applications are reviewed by the BSD's

. The review process takes several weeks, depending upon the number of applicants. In general we try to give candidates at least three weeks notice before the foundation's deadline for submission. All applicants will be notified by email as to whether or not they are selected.