Fellowship for Academic Diversity

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund supports early-career biomedical scientists through a regular grantmaking and fellowship scheme. Its programs are designed to back research areas that are scientifically important but still undervalued and underfunded, with opportunities spanning postdoctoral research and junior faculty positions. This opportunity is based at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in the United States and is intended to help researchers at the beginning of their careers build momentum in biomedi...

The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Research Fellowship supports early postdoctoral research training in the basic biomedical sciences. It is designed to help young researchers build their careers through sustained financial support for biological or medical research. This fellowship is offered by the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation in the United States and is open to applicants worldwide. The award is aimed at early-career scientists at PhD, postdoc, and MD levels who are pursuing research in the lif...

The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is a fellowship scheme from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that supports early career life scientists working in academic labs across the United States. This program is designed for researchers at an early stage after the PhD and is offered on an annual basis. It provides support for independent research training and career development within U.S.-based academic research environments. The fellowship is aimed at life sciences research and is intended for app...

The National Institutes of Health offers an international fellowships scheme designed to provide individual research training opportunities for trainees at undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. This is a broad NIH research training opportunity for applicants from around the world, with the fellowship options intended to support international participation across different career stages. The scheme is linked to the NIH research training environment, giving applicants access to an esta...

The Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan offers a three-year fellowship for outstanding early-career scholars working across the humanities, the arts, the social sciences, the physical sciences, the life sciences, and professional schools. Housed under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, the Society supports a broad, interdisciplinary research environment that brings together scholars from different academic traditions. This is a university-wide fellowship scheme de...