Find Funding

Obtaining your own funding through a fellowship or grant award will help you move toward an independent career and provide you with invaluable experience no matter your future career plans. As many fellowship applications will only support a postdoc within a certain number of years of completing their doctorate (typically 1 – 3) and competition is substantial, it is a good idea to apply early and often.

Grantsmanship

• MCDB Science Communications
• NSF - A Guide for Proposal Writing
• NIH Grant Writing Tips
• NIH All About Grants Podcast
• Human Frontier Science Program, Art of Grantsmanship
• Social Science Research Council, The Art of Writing Proposals
• Grant Writing with Morgan Giddings, PhD

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CU Boulder Resources

• The Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) administers grants and fellowships, along with the Campus Controller's Office (CCO). OCG provides information necessary for submitting your grant applications as well as templates, instructions, and eligibility information.
• The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) maintains funding tools and resources.
• Additionally, the SPIN funding opportunities database is available to CU Boulder postdocs. This site allows users to save searches and set up funding alerts, in addition to other services. To learn more about SPIN, see the training video guide.
• Finally, the Foundation Directory Online Plus, profiles over 140,000 foundations, corporate giving programs and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of more than 4,000 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; and much more.

CU Boulder Training Grants

• Research Training: Mental Health Behavior Genetics
  Institute for Behavioral Genetics
  Principal Investigator: John Hewitt
• Leadership Training in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  Chemical & Biological Engineering
  Principal Investigator: Theodore Randolph
• Training in Signaling and Cellular Regulation
  Chemistry and Biochemistry
  Principal Investigator: Natalie Ahn
• Research Training – Genetics of Substance Abuse
  Institute for Behavioral Genetics
  Principal Investigator: John Hewitt

CU Boulder Funding Programs

• Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, RIO
• Butcher Innovation Award Program, BioFrontiers Institute
• NRC Postdoctoral Fellowships, JILA
• Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships, CIRES
• Professional Research Experience Program (PREP), NIST

External Funding

• NIH Postdoctoral Training/ Clinical Residency Programs
• NIH Early Career Awards
• NSF Postdoctoral Funding
• NPA List of International Fellowships & Awards
• Pathways to Science Advanced STEM Programs Search
• Postdoctoral Non-NIH Funding Opportunities
• Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships and Opportunities
• Independent Postdocs: Resources
• Science Magazine: Where to Search for Funding
• Science Magazine: Independent Postdocs Resources