SPONSORED PROJECT ADMINISTRATION

BURLINGTON, VT 05405

August 23, 2012
Dear Department Chair/Program Director:
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has recently announced Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, a limited competition award (see the description at ), with a deadline of November 1, 2012. The University may put forward up to two candidates. To encourage applications from veterinarians, institutions that nominate a researcher who holds the D.V.M. will be allowed three nominations. Institutions may have a single additional nomination if they nominate a researcher working in pathogenic helminths, mycology, or reproductive science.The deadline for submitting nominations to the Sponsored Project Administration office is September 13, 2012.
The program provides opportunities for assistant professors to bring multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human infectious diseases. Five-year awards provide $500,000 for opportunities for accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the intersection of human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters. Studies supported by the program may have their roots in the pathogen, but the focus of the work should be on the interplay of host and microbe. While work on AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and microbes of interest for biodefense is allowed, the program emphasizes research that opens up unexplored areas. Research on under-studied infectious diseases, including pathogenic fungi, protozoan and metazoan diseases, and emerging infections is especially of interest. In addition, excellent animal models of human disease, including work done in veterinary research settings, are within the program’s scope. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged
If you would like to nominate someone for this award please forward the nominee's CV and a brief statement about why you deem the nominee to be a strong candidate for the award. Nominations should be directed to Ruth Farrell ( ). The deadline for submitting nominations to the Sponsored Project Administration office is September 13, 2012.
Selection of the candidate shall be made shortly thereafter by the Vice President for Research if nominations are received from multiple colleges. Otherwise the selection process rests with Dean of the College of the nominees.
Please direct questions concerning this announcement to Ruth Farrell or Hilda Alajajian.
Sincerely,
Hilda Alajajian
Grant Resources Specialist, SPA
Ruth Farrell
Associate Vice President for Research Administration

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