Burroughs Wellcome Fund

摘要

As with most other BWF award programs, PATH is aimed at career development. It supports US and Canadian researchers at the assistant professor level. We made 16 awards in 2007 to investigators whose work aims at a variety of diverse goals. These five-year awards ($100,000 per year) provide new opportunities for accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis with a focus on the intersection of human and pathogen biology. The program is intended to shed light on the overarching issues of how human hosts handle infectious challenge. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry and higher-risk research projects that hold potential for advancing significantly the biochemical, pharmacological, immunological, and molecular biological understanding of how infectious agents and the human body interact. The program and ancillary grant-supported activities continue to enhance understanding not only of specific diseases but also of the broader question of how microbes interact with the human host.