Funding Resources

FSU Postdoctoral Career Development Center Link

• Postdoctoral Career Development Program Grant Page

Searchable Databases

• Pivot
• Grant Forward

External Funding Resources

• National Institutes of Health
• Minority Postdoc: Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships and Opportunities
• National Science Foundation
• AAUW Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants
• The Foundation Center
• Grants.gov
• HHS Grants
• The National Academies
• National Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships
• National Research Council
• John Hopkins University - Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities

Other Resources

National Academies Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships- website

Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship
Supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the U.S., at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. website

National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. website

American Association of University Women
American Fellowships support women scholars completing doctoral dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research, or finishing research for publication; recipients must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. International Fellowships support graduate or postgraduate study or research by women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents.website

American Councils for International Education Research Fellowships
Administers several major grants for independent, overseas research in the humanities and social sciences. In recent years, American Councils scholars have conducted independent research in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. Competitions and deadlines are found on their website. website

AACR Postdoctoral and Clinical Research Fellow Funding

Fight Colorectal Cancer-AACR Fellowship, in memory of Lisa Dubow
This fellowship represents a joint effort to encourage and support a postdoctoral or clinical research fellow, in the first five years of postdoctoral fellowship, to conduct translational or clinical research that focuses on novel therapeutic approaches for late-stage metastatic colorectal cancer. This grant will support a project designed to lead to individualized therapeutic options for treatment or the development of promising new cancer therapeutics for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. The fellowship provides a one-year grant of $50,000 to support the salary and benefits of the fellow while working on mentored metastatic colorectal cancer research.

QuadW Foundation-AACR Fellowship for Clinical/Translational Sarcoma Research
This fellowship represents a joint effort to encourage and support a postdoctoral or clinical research fellow to conduct translational or clinical sarcoma research and to establish a successful career path in this field. The Fellowship provides a one-year grant of $50,000 to support the salary and benefits of the Fellow while working on mentored sarcoma research.

AACR Clinical and Translational Cancer Research Fellowships
These fellowships are open to Postdoctoral and Clinical Research Fellows working at an academic, medical, or research institution who will be in the first 5 years of their postdoctoral training at the start of the grant term. Proposed research projects may be in any area of clinical and/or translational cancer research. The fellowships provide a one-year grant of $45,000 to support the salary and benefits of the Fellow while working on a mentored clinical and/or translational cancer research project. A partial amount of the funds may be designated for non-personnel research expenses, such as research/laboratory supplies. It is anticipated that at least three fellowships will be funded.