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Industry Programs

Industry Programs: links to pharmaceutical and biotech companies with established postdoctoral programs.

The Eli Lilly Visiting Scientist Program is a 1-year postgraduate program that introduces participants to various medical, marketing, and regulatory aspects of the pharmaceutical industry.

The Fellows Program at Cato Research, a contract research organization, provides training for PhDs who want to transition into clinical research and drug development.

 

Administrative Fellowships in Government

The Presidential Management Fellows program is a two-year fellowship for outstanding graduate students who will complete their degree requirements in the upcoming year, and who are interested in the leadership and management of public policies and programs.

Joint Fellowship Training Program: The National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department Health and Human Services (DHHS) are offering fellowship training for Ph.D.s, M.D.s, and M.D./Ph.D.s or their equivalents in cancer-related scientific research and research-related regulatory review

FDA Commissioner's Fellowship Program: two-year fellowship program which provides an opportunity for health professionals and other scientists to receive training and experience at one of the world's most prestigious regulatory agencies. Under the guidance of a FDA senior scientist preceptor committed to mentoring, fellows will explore a specific aspect of FDA regulatory science. The experience can be in a biology, physics or engineering lab, in a clinical review team, in biostatistics, informatics, epidemiology, risk analysis or other aspects of FDA science.

The Office of Technology Transfer at the National Institutes of Health has a postdoctoral training program in which fellows spend 20% of their time conducting research in an NIH laboratory, and 80% of their time in the OTT.

The Center for Scientific Review, which manages the NIH peer-review process, offers a 1- to 2-year Internship Program for scientists with at least 4 years postdoctoral experience who are interested in science administration.

The US Department of Health and Human Services Emerging Leaders Program is a two-year program designed to recruit high potential employees and provide fast track development of leadership and business skills.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, Office of University Programs is seeking applications for Postdoctoral Fellows to conduct research at DHS affiliated venues, such as DHS laboratories, DHS Centers of Excellence, and DOE national laboratories with homeland security research capabilities. The intent of the DHS S&T Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is to provide postdoctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability opportunities for research on problems compatible with the research interests and mission of DHS.

The Department of Bioethics of the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, NIH, offers a limited number of post-doctoral fellowship positions in bioethics

The American Society of Human Genetics and National Human Genome Research Institute cosponsor a Genetics and Public Policy Fellowship to give genetics professionals an opportunity to contribute the policy-making process. This unique fellowship provides three separate types of experiences: time spent in the NIH as a part of the Executive branch; a staff position on Capitol Hill serving elected officials and the Legislative branch; and then experience working with ASHG in the non-profit science advocacy sector.

 

Science Policy

The National Academies sponsors the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program, a 10-week summer internship experience for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in the interactions of science, technology, and the government.

The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship is a highly competitive, prestigious program for people with a PhD who want to apply their scientific expertise to matters of federal public policy. Fellows work for 2 years in a number of different programmatic areas, including congressional, diplomacy, defense & global security, health education & human services, or energy, enviornment, agriculture & natural resources.

The Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy, sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is for early-career professionals who are interested in transitioning to a career in science policy and administration.

The Fellows Program at the Earth Institute at Columbia University is for individuals dedicated to understanding critical scientific and social issues related to meeting global sustainable development goals. Post-doctoral fellows will join multidisciplinary teams of outstanding, committed scientists from a diverse group of Earth Institute research units and departments across Columbia University, including any of the social sciences, earth sciences, biological sciences, engineering sciences and health sciences.

The American Society for Microbiology has a Congressional Science Fellowship program for US citizens who have been society members for at least 1 year, and who will complete their PhD training by September of the fellowship year.

The American Institute of Biological Sciences offers a Graduate Student Science Policy Fellowship and Policy Internship Opportunities in Washington D.C.

If biomedical ethics is of interest to you, check out the Greenwall Fellowship Program in Ethics and Health Policy at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University.

The American Society of Human Genetics and National Human Genome Research Institute cosponsor a Genetics and Public Policy Fellowship to give genetics professionals an opportunity to contribute the policy-making process. This unique fellowship provides three separate types of experiences: time spent in the NIH as a part of the Executive branch; a staff position on Capitol Hill serving elected officials and the Legislative branch; and then experience working with ASHG in the non-profit science advocacy sector.

UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) seeks bilingual scientists to coordinate international efforts between the public, media, and international governments. More on working for UNESCO in this article from sciencecareers.org.

The Kaiser Family Foundation maintains a list of fellowships and internships in health policy and related fields.

 

Science Writing/Journalism

The AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows Program is a 10-week summer program for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in careers in science writing, journalism, and communication.

Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop

 

Regulatory Affairs/Clinical Research

The Fellows Program at Cato Research, a contract research organization, provides training for PhDs who want to transition into clinical research and drug development.

Joint Fellowship Training Program: The National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department Health and Human Services (DHHS) are offering fellowship training for Ph.D.s, M.D.s, and M.D./Ph.D.s or their equivalents in cancer-related scientific research and research-related regulatory review

The Eli Lilly Visiting Scientist Program is a 1-year postgraduate program that introduces participants to various medical, marketing, and regulatory aspects of the pharmaceutical industry.

FDA Commissioner's Fellowship Program: two-year fellowship program which provides an opportunity for health professionals and other scientists to receive training and experience at one of the world's most prestigious regulatory agencies. Under the guidance of a FDA senior scientist preceptor committed to mentoring, fellows will explore a specific aspect of FDA regulatory science. The experience can be in a biology, physics or engineering lab, in a clinical review team, in biostatistics, informatics, epidemiology, risk analysis or other aspects of FDA science.

The Center for Drug Development Science at UCSF offers a research training fellowship for doctoral level scientists interested in pursuing careers in clinical development or regulation of drugs and biologicals.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center offers a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical pharmacology and drug development.

The Cancer Therapeutics Training Program at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center is a 2-year fellowship in the development of cancer therapeutics. It combines didactic coursework on the drug development process with a drug development research project under the direction of a faculty member. The goal is to train scientists and physicians to move promising new therapeutics through the drug development process efficiently and effectively.

 

Programs to Prepare Doctoral Degree Holders to Direct Clinical Diagnostic Laboratories

Clinical Molecular Genetics Program at Mayo Clinic

Fellowship opportunities at the NIH Clinical Center

List of training programs in Clinical Chemistry

Not Your "Run-of-the Mill" Scientific Postdoctoral Research Opportunity

The Naval Research Laboratory sponsors a (civilian) Postdoctoral Fellowship program at several Naval R & D centers and laboratories.

The Wigner Fellowship Program provides life, physical, computational, and social scientists and engineers with the opportunity to conduct research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The National Academies of Science Research Associateship Programs offer postdoctoral fellowship opportunities to US citizens and foreign nationals who want to perform research as guest scientists at over 30 federal labs or research centers around the country.

The National Biosafety and Biocontainment Program offers two-year post-doctoral fellowships at the NIH Bethesda Campus, providing a rare opportunity to receive professional training in biosafety and biocontainment.

The NASA Postdoctoral Program offers unique research opportunities at NASA Centers, headquarters, and other facilities to national and international individuals who have completed their doctorate degree.

The Plum Island Animal Disease Center offers postdoctoral fellowships for people interested in conducting research on foreign animal diseases.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Visiting Scientist Program allows non-FBI scientists to perform research at the FBI's Forensic Science Research and Training Center in Quantico, VA.

The CIIT Centers for Health Research is a private, not-for-profit research organization that sponsors a Postdoctoral Program for people interested in studying the mechanisms by which environmental chemicals affect human health.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory offers postdoctoral fellowships for research scientists in a variety of disciplines.

 

Teaching Opportunities

The Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship program is designed to transition individuals with backgrounds in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) into teaching in high-need Indiana schools. Similar programs include Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship, Teach Tennessee, KSTF Teaching Fellowship, NYC Teaching Fellows

The Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows Program at the Council on Science and Technology at Princeton University supports postdoctoral fellows who wish to obtain further training in both research and teaching. Fellows conduct research with Princeton University faculty and are involved with the undergraduate educational program at Princeton University, including teaching, curriculum development and instructional laboratory design. The goal of the program is to prepare candidates for careers in both research and teaching. Similar postdoctoral programs exist at Dartmouth, University of Michigan, University of Washington, Haverford College, Davidson College, Swarthmore College, University of Florida, South Carolina, Canisius College, Western Kentucky University, and Lawrence University. The availability of positions at each of these insitutions varies year-to-year. Some programs are designed specifically to enhance teaching at minority serving institutions and increase the number of underrepresented minorities pursuing teaching careers, including postdoctoral programs at De Pauw University, Cornell University, and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

The Scientist-Educator Program at Vanderbilt trains postdoctoral fellows to be leaders in both biomedical education and research. During the three-year fellowship, individuals perform independent cutting-edge research under the supervision of a faculty mentor, and at the same time, learn the practice of teaching gross anatomy, neuroscience, and cell and tissue biology.