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Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
Internal Deadline: March 7, 2008
The University of Michigan may nominate up to four candidates:
- To encourage applications from women, institutions that nominate a female will be allowed 3 nominations
- institutions may have a single additional nomination if they nominate an African-American, Hispanic or Native American candidate.
The Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers with backgrounds in the physical/computational sciences whose work addresses biological questions and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The awards provide up to $500,000 over five years to support up to two years of advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of a faculty appointment.
Eligibility Criteria: Nominees must hold a Ph.D. degree in one of the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry (physical, theoretical, or computational), computer science, statistics, or engineering.
Candidates must have completed at least twelve months but not more than 48 months of postdoctoral training. Candidates cannot hold or have accepted a faculty appointment as a tenure track assistant professor at the time of application.
Full details can be found at the Burroughs Wellcome website (http://www.bwfund.org/). BW Fund deadline is April 15, 2008.
For consideration as institutional nominees, submit the following electronically in a single file, PDF format by March 7, 2008:
- Nomination letter from dean or department chair
- 1-2 page research statement responsive to the RFP, describing why the research is important and outlining the general goals for the next five years.
- a NIH formatted biosketch
Submit all internal applications electronically to OVPRlimitedsubmissions@umich.edu.
Please contact Jane Ritter (ritterj@umich.edu or 763-1290) with any questions regarding this opportunity.
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