Funding Opportunities for Postdocs

Important note: In most cases, receiving one of the fellowships below will require a postdoc to be classified as a postdoctoral fellow. The tax and benefits implications of this title are described on this page of our site.

Need some guidance on applying for grants and fellowships?  Learn more from a recent compendium of tips from Yale’s grants office.   The grants office also provides a list of databases of fellowships.

SPIN and GrantForward are two national databases of funding opportunities. Access these links from the Yale network. 

The NIH also maintains a list of non-NIH funding opportunities. Johns Hopkins regularly updates their list of Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities.

American Cancer Society

https://www.cancer.org/research/we-fund-cancer-research/apply-research-grant.html

American Federation for Aging Research

http://www.afar.org/research/funding/

American Heart Association

https://professional.heart.org/en/research-programs/aha-funding-opportunities

American Society for Engineering Education

http://www.asee.org/fellowship-programs/post-doctoral

Branco Weiss Fellowship (science, engineering, social sciences)

http://www.society-in-science.org/

Brown Coxe Fellowship (internal Yale competition for bioscientists)

https://yale.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1862241

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

http://www.bwfund.org

Cancer Research Institute

http://www.cancerresearch.org/grants-programs

Cancer Society

https://www.cancer.org/research/we-fund-cancer-research/apply-research-grant/grant-types.html

Center for Genomic Regulation

http://www.crg.eu/content/training/postdoctoral-researchers

Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation

http://www.damonrunyon.org

EMBO (US not eligible)

https://www.embo.org/funding/

Energry Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

https://www.energy.gov/eere/education/eere-postdoctoral-research-awards

Fogarty Funding Opportunities

https://www.fic.nih.gov/Funding/Pages/default.aspx

Ford Foundation (Science, Engineering, Medicine)

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_171940

Fraxa Research Foundation

http://www.fraxa.org/research/apply/

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

http://www.hhwf.org

The Hertz Foundation

https://www.hertzfoundation.org/the-fellowship/

HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows Program (underrepresented minorities)

http://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

http://www.hhmi.org/programs/science-education-research-training

Human Frontier Science Program

https://www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp-funding/postdoctoral-fellowships

James McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Complex Systems

https://www.jsmf.org/apply/fellowship/

Jane Coffin Childs Foundation

http://www.jccfund.org/

JDRF (Diabetes research)

http://grantcenter.jdrf.org/

Leukemia Foundation 

https://www.lls.org/research-grant-programs

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

http://www.lls.org/researchershealthcareprofessionals/academicgrants/careerdevelopment/

Life Sciences Research Foundation

http://www.lsrf.org/home

L’Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science Program

https://www.aaas.org/fellowships/loreal-usa-women?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D53369508468412636831041467714028906675%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1691688244

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

https://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/member-application/postdoctoral-fellow

Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

http://www.themmrf.org/research-partners/mmrf-learning-network/research-grants/

Multiple Sclerosis Society

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/For-Professionals/Researchers/Society-Funding/Training-Grants-and-Fellowships/Postdoctoral-Fellowships

National Hemophilia Foundation

http://www.hemophilia.org/Researchers-Healthcare-Providers/Research-Grant-Programs

NIH Funding Announcements

http://grants.nih.gov/searchguide/Search_Guide_Results.cfm?noticestoo=0&rfastoo=0

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in:

Astronomy https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5291&org=NSF

Biology  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/education.jsp?fund_type=3

Earth Science https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503144&org=OMA

Geosciences https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12779&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Math https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5301&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

PEW

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/biomedical-research

PhRMA Foundation

http://www.phrmafoundation.org/

St. Baldrick’s Foundation (childhood cancer research)

http://www.stbaldricks.org/for-researchers

Science/AAAS – Grants & Funding Resource Page

https://www.science.org/content/page/where-search-funding

Sydney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research

http://kimmel.org/

UNCF Merck Science Initiative

https://www.accessandequity.org/uncf-merck-science-initiative/

Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

https://vilcek.org/prizes/vilcek-prizes-for-creative-promise/creative-promise-prizes-biomedical-science/

Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program (biomedical research in Israel)

http://www.zuckerman-scholars.org