We encourage postdoctoral scholars to identify and apply for their own funding. Below are links to some opportunities. This is not a comprehensive list but is intended to help you explore funding mechanisms that might support your work.
Before applying for any grant or fellowship, be sure you understand Stanford policy. Talk with your faculty sponsor and with your grant manager in the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) and the School of Medicine Research Management Group (RMG). Consider working with the Stanford Grant Writing Academy, which can help you develop your proposals and solicit feedback to ensure your writing is strong.
Note that all postdocs must receive at least the minimum salary, and are entitled to benefits. Faculty sponsors must supplement fellowships that do not meet minimum salary requirements or do not provide funding explicitly for benefits. Many fellowships pay stipend. Unlike salary, stipend does not have taxes taken out. Postdocs paid stipend are responsible for making quarterly tax payments. Postdocs with some types of visas may not be eligible for stipend-paid fellowships.
Relevant Policy and Resources
- Please review the Postdoc Guide for Budgeting for a Postdoctoral Fellowship for information about creating a budget.
- Funding Guidelines
- Postdoc Policy on Fellowships (DoResearch 10.3.4)
- Postdoc Benefits Rate Sheet
Stanford Biosciences Funding Opportunities
- RMG's Master List of Funding Opportunities (comprehensive listing of biosciences fellowship opportunities)
- Postdoctoral T32 Training Programs
- Biodesign Fellowship
- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Postdoctoral Scholar Awards
- Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub)
The School of Medicine funds fellowships to support different phases of training. See individual announcements for eligibility:
- Stanford School of Medicine Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowships
- The Walter V. and Idun Berry Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- The Shoshana Levy Early Career Awards to Support Women in Science
- The Katharine McCormick Committee to Support Women in Academic Medicine
- The Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science Fund for Postdoctoral Scholars Travel Grant
- Propel Postdoctoral Scholars Program
Selected Stanford Funding Opportunities for the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Engineering
- Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
- CEAS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese Studies
- Ho Center for Buddhist Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
- APARC Asia Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships (Contemporary Asia, Contemporary Japan, Southeast Asia, Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab)
- Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Ethics in Society Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
- Stanford Impact Labs Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Stanford SPARQ Postdoctoral Fellowships
- SCANCOR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Organizational Studies
- Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) Fellowships
- SEIPR Young Scholars Postdoctoral Fellows
- The Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science Fund for Postdoctoral Scholars Travel Grant
- Center on Food Security and the Environment Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Stanford Science Fellows
- HAI Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Data Science Fellows
- Karel Urbanek and Marvin Chodorow Fellowships
