National Postdoctoral Association

General Postdoctoral Fellowships

• American Association of University Women
• University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship
• University of California, Office of the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Harvard University's Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Cornell University Provost's Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship

General Science Fellowships

• National Science Foundation
• NRC National Research Council: The Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Minorities
  
• American Physiological Society Minority Fellowship
• Center for Genomic Experimentation & Computation (CGEC) Underrepresented Minority Research Fellowships from biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, and mathematics
• FIRST: Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching, Atlanta schools (IRACDA)
• L'Oreal for Women in Science Fellows

Biomedical Science Fellowships

• National Institutes of Health: minority opportunities and general postdoctoral opportunities
  
• The UNCF/MERCK Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowships, UNCF Merck Science Initiative, Postdoctoral $55,000 (10 fellowships)Applicants must be African American US Citizens or Permanent residents.
• Minority Neuroscience Scholars Program: Postdoctoral fellowships up to 3 years, includes training stipends, travel assistance, enrichment programs and mentoring opportunities.
• Intercultural Cancer Council Fellow in Health Disparities, a new fellowship program from Baylor College of Medicine, investigation of minority health and health disparities
  

NPA Partners with UIC to Develop Postdoctoral Fellowship

The NPA has joined forces with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to develop a new postdoctoral fellowship program. UIC is currently seeking applications for its Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation (WISEST) Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity. These postdoctoral fellowships were developed in partnership with the NPA Diversity Committee. To learn more, please visit the UIC-WISEST Web site or contact the WISEST Director.

For additional information on some of these fellowship opportunities, download this overview: Postdoc Fellowships Overview