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Postdoc Fellowships

If you are planning to spend the next step of your career in the Scherman Group, we also recommend you to look into independent research fellowships. 

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Fellowships accepting applicants from all countries:

• Axa Research Fund, Future Research Leader Fellowships

• BBSRC, David Phillipps Fellowship

• BBSRC, Returning to Research

• BBSRC, New Investigator Scheme

• British Academy, Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Cambridge Philosophical Society, Henslow Fellowship

• EMBO

• Human Frontier Science Program

• Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship

• Leverhulme Trust

• L'Oreal UNESCO Award for Women in Science 

• Marie Curie

• Medical Research Council Career Development Award

• Natural Environment Research Council Career Development Award

• Newton International Fellowships

• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

• Royal Society Funding Schemes (including Dorothy Hodgkin, Sir Henry Dale and University Research fellowships)

• Sanger Institute, Janet Thornton Fellowship

• Schlumberger Foundation, Faculty for the Future (Female citizens of developing countries or emerging economies)

• Schmidt Science Fellows

• Science and Technologies Facilities Council, Ernest Rutherford Fellowship

• Society in Science, Branco Weiss Fellowship

• Templeton Foundation Research Grant 

• UKRI, Future Leader Fellowship

• Wellcome Trust

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Fellowships accepting applicants from European Countries only:

• Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina Postdoc Stipendium (Researchers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland)

• Estonian Research Council (Researchers who obtained doctoral degree from Estonian university)

• Fundación Alfonso Martín Escudero Research Grant (Spanish nationals)

• Rubicon Program Postdoc Fellowship (Researchers at Dutch universities and institutes)

• Säätiöiden post doc-pooli Research Abroad (Researchers who received a doctoral degree in Finland)

• Swiss National Research Foundation, Early Postdoc Mobility (Swiss nationals or resident in Switzerland and completed >2 years research in a Swiss Research Institution)

• Vetenskapsrådet International Postdoc (Researchers with a degree from a Swedish HEI)

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Fellowships accepting applicants from China & Hong Kong only:

• Croucher Foundation Fellowship (Permanent residents of Hong Kong)

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Fellowships accepting applicants from North America only:

• Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (Canadian citizens or permamnent residents of Canada)

• Fulbright Scholar program (Applicants from U.S.)

• Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoc Fellowship (U.S. citizens)

• The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (U.S. citizens)

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College Junior Research Fellowships

JRFs are fixed term awards of college membership, given to early stage academics, often before final submission of their PhD or shortly afterwards. They are awarded on the basis of research excellence, are prestigious and highly competitive. Click here for more information on the application process.