Burroughs Wellcome Fund has announced the Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences - a new institutional training award created to bridge the gap between the population and computational sciences and the laboratory based biological sciences. The award will stimulate formation of new connections between existing concentrations of research strength in population approaches to human health and in bench based biological sciences.

These institutional training awards provide $500,000 a year for five years. Burroughs Wellcome Fund anticipates that up to (4) awards will be made in the program's first round. The program will be offered again in 2009. Washington University is limited to a single application. Samuel Stanley, Vice Chancellor for Research, has agreed to lead the effort to generate an interdisciplinary proposal from Washington University.

Please distribute this announcement to the appropriate faculty in your department. If you have ideas regarding possible programmatic themes or suggestions for participating faculty who would be appropriate for this proposal, please submit the following:

• Cover page (click here for document)
• A brief statement of interest
• Applicant's curriculum vitae

Materials should be submitted electronically to: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  no later than 11:59 PM January 31, 2008. Please note the letter of intent is due on March 3, 2008 and invited full applications are due on May 15, 2008. Questions may be directed to Drs. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  and This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .  

See program web site for full details: http://www.bwfund.org/programs/population_lab_sciences/pup_lab_main.html.