Cracking the Code: Strategies to Win a Career Award at the Scientific Interface

Burroughs Wellcome Fund's (BWF) Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) provide $560,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The specific target group are researchers who have transitioned from graduate work in non-life sciences (e.g., physical/mathematical/computational sciences/engineering, etc.) into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences. These awards are open to U.S. and Canadian Citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents. Join CASI Program Officer Dr. Tammy Collins to learn tips on applying for a CASI, hear about what reviewers are looking for at each stage of the application process, and find out what CASI awardees have to say about how the grant has benefited their career.
 

Cracking the Code:  Strategies to Win a Career Award at the Scientific Interface

July 31 | 3:30 - 5 p.m.

Zoom Webinar

About the Speaker:
Tammy R. L. Collins, Ph.D.
Program Officer, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
 
In 2022, Dr. Tammy Collins joined the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF), a nonprofit philanthropic organization whose mission is to nurture a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health.  At BWF, Dr. Collins serves as a Program Officer where she directs the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) program and the Innovations in Regulatory Science Awards (IRSA).  She also serves on the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, & Translation as well as NASEM’s Forum on Regenerative Medicine.  Prior to joining BWF, Dr. Tammy Collins was the Director of the Office of Fellows’ Career Development at the National Institutes of Health | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH |NIEHS). In this role, Dr. Collins provided professional development training to prepare postdoctoral scholars for the workforce and was focused on making their career outcomes transparent. To this end, she published research on NIEHS postdoctoral scholar outcomes in Nature Biotechnology and led a national effort for the Graduate Career Consortium to review career outcome classification and visualization methodologies in North America.  She received an NIH Director’s Award for these efforts. A first-generation student, Dr. Collins obtained her bachelor’s in chemistry from Appalachian State University (ASU), where she became ASU’s first Goldwater Scholar, and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Duke University. After a brief postdoc at Duke, she joined NIEHS as a postdoc in 2009 where she developed her passion for helping foster scientific leaders.