OPA Special Announcement - Postdoc Funding Session: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and their advisors at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) and the Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) are invited to a special opportunity to meet Dr. Louis J. Muglia, President and CEO of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF), and Dr. Kelly Rose, Program Officer. Dr. Muglia and Dr. Rose will lead a webinar on BWF award programs that bridge advanced postdoctoral training and early years of faculty services, including the BWF Careers at the Scientific Interface (CASI) program (deadline: 9/1/2021) and the BWF Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) (deadline: 10/1/2021).
The webinar will also feature Dr. Adrianne Rosales, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, recipient of the BWF CASI in 2016 and former CU Boulder postdoc, who will provide perspective on how the award influenced her training and career; and we are delighted to have Dr. Kristi Anseth, Tisone Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, who was Adrianne’s postdoctoral advisor and who has encouraged and supported many people in her lab over the years to apply for funding from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. We are also very pleased to have joining us, Dr. Lori Sussel, the Sissel and Findlow Family Chair and Professor of Pediatrics and Cell & Developmental Biology at CU Anschutz, who serves as Director Basic and Translational Research at the Barbara Davis Diabetes Center.
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, founded in 1955, serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need. Please visit the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website to learn more about these opportunities and other BWF programs.
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Sponsored by the University of Colorado Boulder Office of Industry and Foundation Relations, Research & Innovation Office, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the CU Anschutz Diabetes Research Center. Contact: Lisa Nanstad, Director of Foundation Relations.