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Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH)

Burroughs Wellcome Fund(BWF)

Program Background

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.

This award provides $500,000 over a period of five years to support accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between infectious agents and their hosts, shedding light on how both are affected by their encounters. Associate professors may not apply. This is a career development award for individual investigators and does not support collaborative teams.

The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry and higherrisk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious disease. Researchers who start from the human host are appropriate applicants, as are those who start from the microbe or virus. Research on under-studied infectious diseases, including emerging diseases as well as wellestablished ones, is encouraged. Work on fungal, protozoan, and metazoan diseases and emerging infections is especially of interest. In addition, excellent animal models of human disease, including in veterinary research settings, are within the program’s scope. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Work connecting pathogenesis itself to climate change is also encouraged. Work that additionally involves more elements, for example, vector biology, is very welcome.

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Infectious Diseases

Global Health

Public Health

Eligibility Requirements

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.

Applications must be approved and signed by an official responsible for sponsored programs (generally from the grants office, office of research, or office of sponsored programs) at a degree-granting institution. Candidates will generally have a Ph.D. and/or a clinical doctorate (M.D., D.V.M., etc.).

Candidates must have an established record of independent research.
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. Candidates who are temporary U.S. residents must hold a valid U.S. visa (J-1, H1B, F-1 or O-1 visas). Temporary Canadian residents must hold a valid Canadian visa (Study Permit, C-43, C44, C-10, or C-20 work permits/visas).
Candidates who will be promoted to Associate Professor by November 13, 2022 are not eligible to apply.
Candidates who have completed a Burroughs Wellcome Fund career development award (CAMS or CASI) are encouraged to apply but must contact BWF before writing the pre-proposal. Having had BWF travel, career guidance for trainees, preterm birth, regulatory science, or PDEP grants does not impact PATH support.
Microbiome-related proposals must be infectious disease-focused to compete well in this program.

Important Notes

BWF strongly encourages applications from women and underrepresented minorities.
BWF encourages submissions from those working in protozoan and metazoan parasites, protists, and fungi. Viral, bacterial, immune, and multi-species work is likewise encouraged. Work related to malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS is appropriate for this program. BWF particularly encourages human health-relevant applications from veterinary scientists.
The PATH award can only be made to accredited, degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada. An Internal Revenue Service determination letter of the institution’s non-profit status may be requested by BWF staff if one is not on file in our office.
BWF encourages submissions focusing on climate change and its impact on the pathogenosis of infectious disease and human health.

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Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Burroughs Wellcome Fund(BWF)

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Address: 21 T.W. Alexander Drive; PO Box 13901; Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3901;United States

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