Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences

BWF was founded in 1955 as the corporate foundation of the pharmaceutical firm Burroughs Wellcome Co. In 1993, a generous gift from the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom, enabled BWF to become fully independent from the company, which was acquired by Glaxo in 1995. BWF has no affiliation with any corporation. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Within this broad mission, BWF has two primary goals: To help scientists early in their careers develop as independent investigators To advance fields in the basic biomedical sciences that are undervalued or in need of particular encouragement

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Board Members

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Michael J Welsh Chair in Internal Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa

• Member, Board of Directors

Emery N Brown Professor of Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital

• Member, Board of Directors

Dyann F Wirth Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Harvard School of Public Health

• Chair, Board of Directors

Carla Shatz Professor of Biology and Neurobiology, Stanford University

• Member, Board of Directors

Roderick R McInnes Professor of Genetics and of Biochemistry, McGill University

• Member, Board of Directors

George Langford Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University

• Member, Board of Directors

Geoffrey Gerber Founded TWIN Capital Management, Inc. in 1990

• Member, Board of Directors

J Michael Bishop Director, G.W. Hooper Research Foundation

• Member, Board of Directors

Nancy Andrews Dean of the School of Medicine, Duke University

• Member, Board of Directors

John Burris President, Burroughs Wellcome Fund; Former President, Beloit College

• President (Jul '08→?)

Donors

Wellcome Trust Global charitable foundation

• Grant ('93)

Donations

SERP Institute Scaling Scientific Approaches To Education In Public Schools

• Funder

Memberships

STEM Funders Network

• Member