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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is an independent private foundation that serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in the biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need. BWF makes grants primarily to degree-granting institutions or nonprofit research institutes on behalf of individual researchers. To complement these competitive award programs, BWF also makes grants to nonprofit organizations conducting activities intended to improve the general environment for science.