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153 fully funded PhD positions in the United States

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Closes 11 Dec 2026 Postdoctoral Fellow in Spatial Biology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount S · Medicine & Health Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neural Engineering Section, Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) · Biology & Life Sciences Postdoctoral Associate – Nima Sharifi Laboratory Compensation Grade A9 · Medicine & Health Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Pathology & AI/Machine Learning Commensurate with experience · Computer Science & AI Postdoctoral Fellowships in Computational Biology Commensurate with experience · Biology & Life Sciences Postdoctoral Positions in Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Carrasquillo Lab, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health · Biology & Life Sciences Postdoctoral Scientist- Bardwell Lab Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) · Medicine & Health Postdoctoral Associate: Nanopore Spectroscopy for Single-Molecule Biodosimetry Biophysical and Biomedical Measurement Group - NIST · Biology & Life Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Haq Lab Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) · Medicine & Health Postdoctoral fellow University of California, San Francisco Colitis Center Postdoctoral Research Associate - Developmental Neurobiology - Muscle-to-Brain Communication & Aging Commensurate with experience · Medicine & Health Postdoctoral Fellow Trainees will receive health insurance as well as a stipend commensurate with experience. · Medicine & Health

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Institutions currently hiring in the United States

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount S · National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) · Compensation Grade A9 · Commensurate with experience · Carrasquillo Lab, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health · Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) · Biophysical and Biomedical Measurement Group - NIST · Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) · University of California, San Francisco Colitis Center · Trainees will receive health insurance as well as a stipend commensurate with experience. · BioBuilt Technologies · Stipend support will follow the NIH NRSA level for the appropriate PGY. · National Institute on Aging (NIA) · Anacker Lab · University of Oklahoma Health Campus · Johns Hopkins Medicine - Laboratory of Human Biomimetics · Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine · The Infinity Fellowship · La Jolla Institute for Immunology - Human Resources · Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) · University of Pennsylvania · Mayo Clinic, Rochester · 70,000 USD · 65,000-70,000 · Columbia Center for Translational Immunoogy · Columbia University Irving Medical Center / Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons · The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard · NIH based · dependent on fellowship · Kansas State University · Commensurate with Experience · New York University Grossman School of Medicine · Univ. Alabama, Birmingham · 30.00/hour · Chen Lab University of California Berkeley · Stony Brook University · Weill Cornell Medicine · Cedars-Sinai HS · LDEO of Columbia University · DOE

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