Office of Research

Quantitative and Statistical Thinking in the Life Sciences

Limited Submissions

*Apologies for the late notice; UW did not receive an invitation but is an invited institution for this

 

For the sponsor's full RFP, please email research@uw.edu

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund announces a one-time award program providing support for faculty time spent on developing improved approaches to training graduate students for a more quantitative and statistically-informed approach to thinking and a more model-driven approach to doing research in the biomedical and related life sciences.

 

Up to four grants of $150,000 will support faculty effort and relevant administrative support for up to two years of work  on curricular development, and/or pulling together elements from multiple departments, and/or course and workshop development, as well as other efforts focused on building or substantially restructuring didactic elements of graduate training. We hope to seed development of Ph.D.s who will be more quantitative, more formally prepared in experimental design, and more able to think with and from models and statistics.

 

Application Instructions

Please submit:

  1. a one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
  2. Biosketch or CV of the PI

 

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, April 5, 2018. Proposals are due to the sponsor 4/25/18, so you will need to have your materials in to OSP by 4/17/18 for processing, if given the go-ahead by the review committee.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

2018

Deadlines
04/05/2018 UW Internal Deadline Closed
04/17/2018 OSP Deadline
04/25/2018 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Funding amount

$150,000

Maximum Number of Applications

1

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.