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Attention:  Deadline approaching on Jan. 15, 2016

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund wants to help advance the careers of underrepresented minority researchers in biomedical and medical research. We believe that diversity is essential to the process and advancement of scientific innovation, academic discourse, and public service.

To find these talented scientists, we need your help.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has created the Postdoctoral Enrichment Program (PDEP) to support early career scientists and engineers of Latino, Native-American, Pacific Island, and African-American descent. PDEP awards a total of $60,000 over three years to postdocs in biomedical or medical research, who are citizens of the United States or Canada, and hosted at a degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada.

Funding through PDEP expressly supports participation in the following activities:

• Opportunities for the PDEP postdoctoral fellow to enhance their research productivity. Examples include travel and attendance to workshops, courses, and trainings in new techniques; or meetings and events that launch new collaborations and knowledge transfer.  
• Opportunities for the PDEP mentor to develop and provide mentoring resources at their home institution, to increase the research productivity and long-term career success of the postdoctoral fellow. Examples include career guidance discussions, research management trainings, or professional development in grant writing, communication, and other skills demanded of future principle investigators.  
• Opportunities for the PDEP mentor to attend an annual meeting of PDEP mentors hosted by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.  
• Opportunities for the PDEP postdoc-mentor pair to participate in a national peer network of PDEP fellows to foster inter-institutional collaboration and greater community engagement.

We need to enrich biomedical and medical research with new voices and faces. But molding a diverse research community begins with mentoring diverse talents. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund wants to hear from underrepresented postdocs and mentors working at the frontlines of scientific discovery, and invites their application for the PDEP fellowship.

Help us identify these exciting scientists — and help us mentor diverse voices and faces to advance biomedical research careers.