Postdoctoral ProgrammeFellowships and Funding

Most postdoctoral fellows enter EMBL with external funding. Individual funding is obtainable from a number of international fellowship programmes, and in many cases also from the prospective fellows home country.

Popular international fellowship programmes include:

European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
European Union (Marie Curie Fellowships)
Human Frontiers Science Programme Organisation (HFSPO)

Other potential sources of funding for EMBL fellows:

Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung
Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer, ARC, France
Austrian Science Foundation, FWF
Branco Weiss Foundation
DAAD
Danish Agency for Science
DFG
Engelhorn Stiftung
Ernst Schering Fellowship
FEBS
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Fondation pour la recherche medicale, France
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Helsingin Sanomain 100-vuotissaatio, Finland
IBRO (International Brain Research Organization)
JSPS, Japan
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden
Louis Jeantet Foundation
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
NIH, US
Norwegian Research Council
Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Biological Sciences
Ramon Areces Fundacion, Spain
Stiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Suomen Akatemia, Finland
Swedish SSF
Volkswagen Foundation
Welcome Trust UK
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

If you know of a postdoctoral fellowship which is not included here please let us know.