Funding & Fellowships

Resources to Get Started

A Practical Guide to Writing a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Grant

(Book)

So You Want to Apply for an NRSA...

(Short lecture series)

How to Write a Successful Grant or Fellowship Application

(Article)

Fellowships: Navigating NIH Peer Review

(Recorded seminar)

Funding Opportunities

Graduate Students

National opportunities:

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Proposal Writing Workshop (from the UMN Graduate School)
NIH Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award
- F30: Individual predoctoral NRSA fellowship for MD/PhD students
- F31: Individual predoctoral NRSA fellowship for PhD students
- F-Award Workshop (from the UMN Medical School/CTSI)
NIH F99/K00: Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (for year 3 or 4 graduate students)
Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships
GEM PhD Science Fellowship Program
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships (for graduate students in their first or second year of grad school)

UMN opportunities:

Fellowships from the UMN Graduate School
Beatrice Z. Milne and Theodore Brandenburg Award (for exceptional thesis research)

Postdoctoral Trainees

National opportunities:

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
NIH Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award
- F05: Individual postdoctoral fellowship for non-immigrant foreign scientists
- F32: Individual postdoctoral NRSA fellowship
- F33: Individual NRSA fellowship for senior fellows (>7 years of postdoctoral experience)
NIH F99/K00: Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (for year 3 or 4 graduate students)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Enrichment Program
L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Program
HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program (for postdoctoral fellows who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences)
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
List of hundreds of postdoctoral fellowships maintained by Johns Hopkins University

Both Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Trainees

President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

American Association of University Women

MnDRIVE Funding Opportunities

Ben Barres Fellowship (for professional development of trans, intersex, and non-binary graduate students and postdoctoral fellows)

Search for more via this database of funding opportunities maintained by Harvard University

Fellowships and Programs

General Career Development

Industry

Technology Transfer

Office of Technology Commercialization Internship Program

Government

Presidential Management Fellowship
ORISE fellowships and internships (search thousands of positions at a variety of federal agencies)

Science Education

NHGRI Genetics and Education Fellowship

Science Policy

NHGRI Genetics and Public Policy Fellowship
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Public Policy Fellowships
Health Policy Research Scholars
Hellman Science & Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
More opportunities can be found in this list of Science Policy fellowships

Science Communication

About the Office of Professional Development

Staff:
Sharolyn Kawakami-Schulz, PhD - Director

The University of Minnesota Medical School's Office of Professional Development (OPD) for Graduate Students and Postdocs supports the professional development of trainees by providing resources in the areas of career exploration and readiness, teaching and mentoring, wellness, communication, and leadership and management. The OPD works in collaboration with the BGREAT programs' leadership, the Associate Dean for Graduate Education, the Graduate School, and other units with the University of Minnesota to support biomedical graduate and postdoctoral training.