These awards are not intended to support ongoing funded research. Proposals should focus on the modeling of complex multigenic traits, rather than on determining the functions of individual genes. This is a limited competition. An institution may nominate up to two candidates in each of the award areas.
Collaborative proposals count as a single nomination toward the four-nomination limit.
BWF encourages institutions to submit pairs of coordinated proposals that build a bridge between computational methods and animal model development within one system. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the US or Canada at the time of application. Candidates must have an M.D., Ph.D. or D.V.M. degree and bold a tenure-track faculty appointment at the assistant, associate, or full professor level. Pre-proposals are invited for internal review and selection.