External Funding
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs encourages Penn State postdocs to develop grant writing skills, knowledge of funding sources, and investigate new opportunities. If you are aware of an additional funding opportunity that should be added to this list, please email this information to postdoc@psu.edu.
- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s Education and Workforce Development (USDA)
- American Association of University Women, Fellowships and Grants
- American Federation for Aging Research
- Berkeley’s list of postdoctoral fellowships in the biological sciences
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Denis Wirtz’s list of PhD fellowships on Twitter
- EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships (European Molecular Biology Organization)
- European Research Council Starting Grant
- Fogarty International Center, Non-NIH Funding Opportunities – Grants and Fellowships (biomedical and behavioral research)
- Funding@PennState
- GrantForward (database with 21,000+ sponsors)
- Grants.gov (federal grants)
- Harvard’s Funding Opportunities for Postdoctoral Scholars
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Human Frontier Science Program Funding – Postdoctoral Fellowships (life sciences, interdisciplinarity encouraged)
- Humboldt Research Fellowship
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- NIH Pathways to Independence Award (K99/R00)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (NSF)
- SciVal Funding
- Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
- UC San Diego’s Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities
- University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Research Fellowships & Awards
- Vanderbilt’s “Tips for international postdocs on finding funding for your research”
- Weekly NIH funding opportunities (you can also subscribe by email here)