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Resources for students seeking postdocs
From Q-bio
Below we have collected a few locations of sites wit information about postdoctoral fellowships and opportunities as well as links to places for more advice. Please send us any link that you come across that might be valuable to the rest of the group.
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Links to career advising resources
- The Science Careers IDP (Individual Development Plan) website hosts a set of checklists & self-evaluations that are designed to help one decide what to be when one "grows up" and to identify the competencies one needs to develop to achieve those goals. Rosemary Braun let us know about this, and used this both for herself & for her mentees and found it useful. Registration is free, and it keeps the answers so that you can revisit them as you progress.
Links to postdoc fellowships and support
NSF has lots of information online about GFRP opportunities as does NIH for NRSA opportunities.
NIH Postdoc & Early Career opportunities
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program (CPFP) is an intramural postdoc program that includes a year of public health training. Fellows can work with labs in the NCI or FDA. NB: deadline is in August.
- NIH/NCI IRTA/CRTA postdoc fellowships for research AT NIH.
- CRTA/IRTA fellowships have a citizenship requirement (not sure about CPFP). Citizens of countries other than the United States can apply for Visiting Fellowships, both within the NIH and the NCI. See NIH International Services for more info.
- The NIH K-kiosk is the clearing house for NIH career development & transition awards, which are meant to foster the transition from postdoc to early-career researcher. Of particular interest are:
- K99/R00, NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award - You have no more than four years of postdoctoral training, you need one to two more years of postdoctoral mentored training, but expect to transition to an independent research position by the end of two years, and are seeking support for both the mentored training and your subsequent independent research project. NB: No citizenship/perm.res. requirements!!
- K22, Career Transition Award - Similar to the K99/R00, but with no time-since-PhD constraints. The Career Transition Award is not offered by all of the NIH institutes and centers, but for those that do offer it it provides an opportunity for postdocs to apply for independent research and career development support. Some of these awards support and additional period of postdoc training followed by a period of support as an independent researcher (like the K99/R00), others just include an independent segment (like the R00 phase of the K99/R00). NB: US citizens/perm.res. only.
- K25, Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award - You are switching to a biomedically-related research field AND your background is in a quantitative science such as mathematics or statistics. This mechanism is aimed at research-oriented scientists with experience at the level of junior faculty (e.g., early to mid-levels of assistant professor or research assistant professor ranks). This award provides support for a period of supervised study and research for professionals with such backgrounds who have the potential to integrate their expertise with biomedicine and develop into productive investigators. (US citizens/perm.res. only.)
