OPA helps identify funding sources, develop proposals, and manage funding. Note: 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.
Each year, Stanford presents new fellowship opportunities and/or outright awards to postdocs. For instance, you can read more about the PRISM Baker Fellowships Article from the Stanford Report. Also, the Stanford Impact Labs welcomes its inaugural cohort of postdoctoral fellows who are working in partnership with research labs across Stanford University to address some of the most challenging social problems: racial and gender bias in the workplace; political polarization in the United States; and poverty and violence in Central America.
In addition to each of these, there are a wide variety of fellowship opportunities that also exist outside of Stanford.
Policy for Fellowship Support
- Please review the Postdoc Guide for Budgeting for a Postdoctoral Fellowship for information about creating a budget.
- Funding Guidelines
- Postdoc Policy Overview
- Postdoc Benefits Rate Sheet
Writing the Application
The Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) and the School of Medicine Research Management Group (RMG) provide information and resources for fellowship applications.
Many applications require a description of additional educational opportunites for Stanford postdocs, found here.
The Expanded Pilot PI Waiver supports applications from postdocs for R01-type grants that require Principal Investigator status at the School of Medicine. Contact the Research Management Group for more information.
The Stanford BioSciences Grant Writing Academy provides workshops, seminars, and online resources for proposals for fellowships and career development awards. Though aimed at NIH mechanisms, the programs are equally valuable for applications to other agencies and foundations.
Stanford Biosciences Funding Opportunities
- RMG's Master List of Funding Opportunities (comprehensive listing of biosciences fellowship opportunities)
- Biodesign Fellowship
- Stanford Neurosciences Institute Interdisciplinary Scholar Awards
- Hematology T32 Grant
- 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 Katharine McCormick Committee to Support Women in Academic Medicine
- The Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science Fund for Postdoctoral Scholars Travel Grant
- Stanford Postdoctoral Recruitment Initiative at the School of Medicine (PRISM)
- Propel Postdoctoral Scholars Program
- Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology Diversity Fellowship
Selected Stanford Funding Opportunities for the Natural Sciences, Engineering, and Humanities
- Humanities
- Ho Center for Buddhist Studies
- Ethics in Society/Global Justice
- International Studies
- Organization Studies
- Chinese Studies
- Economics
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Travel Awards
- The Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science Fund for Postdoctoral Scholars Travel Grant
- ChEM-H (Chemistry, Engineering & Medicine for Human Health)
- Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
- Stanford Science Fellows
- Human and Planetary Health
- Data Science Fellows
- Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Stanford SPARQ Postdoc Program
