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Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities

The postdoctoral opportunities below are provided as a service to the UC San Diego academic community. They will be reviewed and updated annually.


FOUNDATION/ORGANIZATION U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency Required? EXPECTED DEADLINE
A.P. Giannini Foundation
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program
U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency Required November
ALS Association
Milton Safenowitz Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
No Citizenship Requirement April
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
U.S. Citizenship Required November
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Award
No Citizenship Requirement January
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
International Fellowships
No Citizenship Requirement November
American College of Surgeons
Resident Research Scholarships
No Citizenship Requirement September
American Council of Learned Societies
Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program
No Citizenship Requirement September
American Diabetes Association
Postdoctoral Training Fellowship
U.S. Citizenship Required November
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) / Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty
No Citizenship Requirement December
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) / Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research
No Citizenship Requirement January
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Innovation Grant
No Citizenship Requirement November
American Heart Association
AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement September
American Lung Association
Senior Research Training Fellowship
Non-U.S. citizens okay with certain Visas September
American Mathematical Society
AMS Centennial Research Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement December
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
Young Investigator Research Grant
No Citizenship Requirement February
American Philosophical Society
Daland Fellowship in Clinical Investigation
No Citizenship Requirement September
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Psychiatric Research Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement January
American Society of Nephrology
Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program
No Citizenship Requirement December
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation
U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency Required September
AXA Foundation
AXA Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement April
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Postdoctoral Fellows Program
No Citizenship Requirement November
BrightFocus Foundation
Alzheimer's Disease Research Grant
No Citizenship Requirement November
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Career Awards for Medical Scientists
Temporary Residents Okay if Allowed to Work in U.S. or Canada October
Burrough Wellcome Fund
Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program
U.S. or Canadian Citizenship Required January
Cancer Research Institute
Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
No Citizenship Requirement March and September
Citizen's United in Research for Epilepsy CURE
Taking Flight Award for Young Investigators
No Citizenship Requirement January
Craig H. Neilson Foundation
Spinal Cord Translational Spectrum Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement June
Craig H. Neilson Foundation
Psychosocial Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement March
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award
No Citizenship Requirement May and December
Cystinosis Research Foundation
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
No Citizenship Requirement October
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Fellowship Award
No Citizenship Requirement March and August
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Physician Scientist Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement January
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
Clinical Fellowships
No Citizenship Requirement January
EGL Charitable Foundation
Gruss Lipper Family Postdoctoral Fellowship
Israeli Citizenship Required October
Emergency Medicine Foundation
Grant Program
No Citizenship Requirement February
Endocrine Fellows Foundation
Grant Program
No Citizenship Requirement August
Epilepsy Foundation
New Therapy Commercialization Grant
No Citizenship Requirement January and August
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Short-term and Long-term Fellowships
No Citizenship Requirement Ongoing
Ford Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships
U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency Required December
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
Research Fellowship Grant
No Citizenship Requirement February and August
Gerber Foundation
Novice Research Award
No Citizenship Requirement May and November
Heart Failure Society of America, Inc.
Research Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement April
Heart Rhythm Society
Fellowships in Electrophysiology
No Citizenship Requirement July
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
Research Fellowship
Foreign applicants must have valid Visa and conduct work in U.S. only June
Hereditary Disease Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships
No Citizenship Requirement February
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
Long-term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships
No Citizenship Requirement May
International OCD Foundation
Breakthrough and Innovator Awards
No Citizenship Requirement February
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems
No Citizenship Requirement June
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
Fellowship Award
No Citizenship Required (Awards for U.S. Study Only) February
Lalor Foundation
Postdoctoral Basic Research Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement January
Lam Foundation
Career Development Research Grant
No Citizenship Requirement June
Larry L. Hillblom Foundation
Fellowship Grants
No Citizenship Requirement January
Lymphoma Research Foundation
Clinical Investigator Career Development Award
U.S./Canadian Citizenship or Visa Required May
Lymphoma Research Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships
U.S./Canadian Citizenship or Visa Required May
Marine Biological Laboratory
Grass Fellowship Program
Non-citizens/residents must have valid visa for entire duration of fellowship December
Morton Cure Paralysis Fund
Grants
No Citizenship Requirement April and October
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
Research Fellow Award
No Citizenship Requirement May
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Biologics
Clinical Science Grant
No Citizenship Requirement March
National Academy of Education
Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
No Citizenship Requirement November
National Ataxia Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement October
National Hemophilia Foundation
Judith Graham Pool Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement June
National Institute of Health
Postdoctoral Grants & Fellowships
U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency Required Varies
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Career Transition Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement May
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship in Rehabilitation Research
No Citizenship Requirement July
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Postdoctoral Fellowships
No Citizenship Requirement August
Open Philanthropy Project
Open Phil AI Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement October
Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance
Mentored Investigator Grants
No Citizenship Requirement April
Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation
Fellowships
No Citizenship Requirement July
Parker B. Francis Foundation
Parker B. Francis Fellowship in Pulmonary Research
Citizenship or Permanent Resident of U.S. or Canada Required October
Parkinson's Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Basic Scientists
No Citizenship Requirement November
Pew
Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences
No Citizenship Requirement August
PhRMA Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Health Outcomes
No Citizenship Requirement February
PhRMA Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
No Citizenship Requirement February
Plastic Surgery Foundation
Research Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement December
Prevent Cancer Foundation
Research Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement July
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Young Investigator Award
No Citizenship Requirement TBD
Radiology Society of North American
Foundation Research Resident/Fellow Grant
No Citizenship Requirement January
Rally Foundation
Cancer Research Fellowship Grants
No Citizenship Requirement September
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP)
Citizenship/Permanent Resident of U.S./DACA Status Required March
Schmidt Futures
Eric & Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at UC San Diego
No Citizenship Requirement October
Simons Foundation
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
No Citizenship Requirement May
Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)
Bridge to Independence Award
No Citizenship Requirement February
Skin Cancer Foundation
Research Grants
No Citizenship Requirement November
Smith Richardson Foundation
Strategy & Policy Fellows Program
No Citizenship Requirement June
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Education Research Grant
No Citizenship Requirement August
Society for Conservation Biology
David H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Research
No Citizenship Requirement September
Sorensen Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement January
Spencer Foundation
NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
No Citizenship Requirement November
St. Baldrick's Foundation
Grants
No Citizenship Requirement Varies
Thrasher Research
Fund Early Career Awards
No Citizenship Requirement March and September
University of California
President's Postdoctoral Fellowships
U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency Required November