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The Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards Program supports early career investigators whose research has a direct impact on human health. The biomedical research supported pursuant to this grant program will be designed to find ways to prevent disease and improve human health through basic and applied biomedical research. The intent of the program is to fund meritorious research that has the potential for new discoveries or advances a discovery to the proof of its potential value as an application to improve human health. This research will improve the understanding, treatment, and prevention of human disease. Awardees will carry the prestigious title of Boettcher Investigator.

CU’s seventy-five Boettcher Investigators have been awarded a total of $17,630,000 since the program was initiated in 2010. See all CU Boettcher Investigators.

CAMPUS-SPECIFIC DEADLINES

Applications must be submitted to your campus Grants office by the campus-specific deadlines included in the campus-specific instructions: 

  • CU Boulder (Available Late November 2025)
  • CU Colorado Springs (Available Late November 2025)
  • CU Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus (Available Late November 2025)

Campus Grant Offices must submit final completed applications to the President’s Office by February 27, 2026.

A video about the Boettcher Foundation Innovation Summit - Celebrating Fifteen Years of the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards Program is available below.