Postdoctoral research fellows

The Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge welcomes postdoctoral research fellows. Typically, these fellowships are awarded to postdoctoral researchers to enable them to establish their independent research programme during the award.

Example schemes and funding opportunities are listed below:

BBSRC: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/2024-bbsrc-fellowships-scheme/

Daphne Jackson: https://daphnejackson.org/about-fellowships/

EMBO: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/postdoctoral-fellowships/

Herchel Smith: https://www.herchelsmith.cam.ac.uk/postdoctoral-fellowships

Human Frontier Science: https://www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp-funding/postdoctoral-fellowships

Leverhulme Trust (needs matching funding): https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships: https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships

University of Cambridge Colleges: https://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/junior-research-fellowships-jrfs

Wellcome Early-Career Awards: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/early-career-awards

If you plan to support a postdoctoral fellow’s application, you must complete the checklist, which will be forwarded to the departmental Grants Office and the Deputy Head of Department for Research.

Please see this link for information from the department that might be useful when writing postdoctoral fellowship proposal.

Please be aware that the Grant’s Office require 4 weeks’ notice in order to process the application through WORKTRIBE (X5 replacement).