Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology

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*Organization Limit: Only individuals may apply. NSF postdoctoral fellowships are awards to individuals, and applications are submitted directly by applicants to NSF. However, applications must include sponsoring scientists' statements and the applicants must affiliate with institutions (e.g., colleges and universities, and privately-sponsored nonprofit institutes and museums, government agencies and laboratories, and, under special conditions, for-profit organizations) anywhere in the world. *PI Limit:<p>Applicants must <ul><li><p>be U.S. citizens (or nationals) or permanent residents of the United States (i.e., have a &quot;green card&quot;) at deadline; </li><li><p>earn or plan to earn the doctoral degree in a scientific or mathematical field prior to the requested start date of the fellowship and have not accepted an academic appointment; </li><li><p>either currently be a graduate student or, at the deadline date, have served in a position requiring the doctoral degree for no more than 12 full time months since earning the degree; </li><li><p>must present a research and training plan that falls within the purview of BIO and includes the required information for the specific competition as described in this document; </li><li><p>select both a host institution and sponsoring scientists different from the doctoral degree and the current position; </li><li><p>not have received Federal funding of more than $20,000 as PI or co-PI (except graduate fellowships and doctoral dissertation improvement grants); </li><li><p>not have submitted the same project to another NSF program; AND </li><li><p>not be a named participant on any other proposal submitted to NSF, including regular research proposals, concurrent with the fellowship application, regardless of who is the named principal investigator. </li></ul> If you fail to meet any eligibility criterion, your application will be returned without review.