Award Summaries

Links have been provided for those awards offered during the spring 2013 awards cycle.

Award	Degree Requirements	Citizenship Requirements	Eligible faculty	Application cycle	Field
Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists	MD, DDS, DVM, PharmD, or equivalent clinical degree	Citizen or Permanent Resident of the U.S. or Canada	Postdocs/Fellows and Instructors	Spring	Basic biomedical, disease oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or pharmacological epidemiology research
Burroughs Wellcome Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease	MD, MD/PhD, or PhD	Citizen or Permanent Resident of the U.S. or Canada	Instructors, Assistant Professors	Spring	Infectious Disease
Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award	MD or MD/PhD	U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident	Instructors, Assistant Professors	Fall	Cancer
Pew Scholars Program		None	Assistant Professor or Independent Instructor	Spring	Basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award		None	Instructors and Assistant Professors, tenure track for no more than 3 yrs	Fall	Neuroscience, immunology, and cure and treatment of cancer, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis