Life Science PhD, Fellowship and Scholarship Deadlines: 38 Close by 15 September 2026
Two hundred and five life science funding calls are open across seven regions. Eight close today, 31 August 2026, and thirty more by 15 September. Twenty-one entries are new this week, including three Quebec competitions open to non-Canadians and five southern-hemisphere summer programmes. Every date was read on the funder’s own site on 31 August 2026.
This is our weekly funding roundup for life scientists. Every entry was checked against the funding organisation’s own website on 31 August 2026. Nothing here comes from a scholarship aggregator, and one entry in this issue exists only because a second reader went looking for a date written in words.
The index now holds 205 open calls: 70 in Europe, 44 in North America, 34 global schemes with no single home country, 20 across Asia and the Pacific, 17 in India, 12 in Africa and 8 in Latin America. Twenty-one entries are new since last Monday. Seven closed because their dates passed, and no stored deadline moved anywhere in the index this week.
Thirty-eight of the 205 close within the next sixteen days, eight of them tonight. If you read one section, read the next one, and if you want the list without the commentary it lives at opportunities closing this week.
| Programme | Host / country | Level | Funding | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amgen Scholars Australia Program, Summer 2027 | Amgen Foundation, Australia | Undergraduate | Funded undergraduate summer research placement at the University of Melbourne, running 3… | 31 August 2026 |
| Project Associate-I, Dr Diya Binoy Joseph Lab (Advt. inStem/Temp/28/2026) | BRIC-inStem (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine), Bengaluru, India | Master’s | INR Rs. 31,000/month + HRA (NET-qualified) or Rs. 25,000/month + HRA. | 31 August 2026 |
| Project Associate-II and Project Assistant, extramural projects (Advt. No. NCCS/Project Management Cell/P05/Online/2026) | BRIC-National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, India | Master’s | INR Rs 28,000/month + HRA. | Last Date of Receipt of Application through Google Form is 31.08.2026 |
| Project Associate-I, NIPGR Short-Term Research Fellowship scheme (advertisement dated 17-08-2026) | BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research (BRIC-NIPGR), New Delhi, India | Master’S Graduate | One Project Associate-I post under Dr Senthil-Kumar Muthappa, paid at DST/DBT norms. The… | 31 August 2026 |
| Project Associate-I, differential virulence and drug resistance in bovine tuberculosis, Dr Nisheeth Agarwal lab (RN No. THS/RN/01/2026/08-I) | BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India | Master’s | INR Rs 31,000/month + HRA. | Last Date: 2026-08-31 (Walk In) |
| Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Scholarships for Postgraduate Study | Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, South Africa | Multiple levels | A limited number of scholarships each year for postgraduate study at local and… | 31 August 2026, for studies commencing January to June 2027 |
| Pathfinder Grant (formerly The Exploration Fund Grant) | The Explorers Club, Any country | Multiple levels | USD 2,500 to USD 5,000. | 31 August 2026 |
| Rising Explorer Grant | The Explorers Club, Any country | Undergraduate | Awards average USD 2,000. | 31 August 2026 |
| The 2027 Postdoctoral Scholar Program (First Round) | Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan | Postdoc | A full-time postdoctoral appointment at Academia Sinica running 1 January 2027 to 31… | August 1 to September 1, 2026 |
| Junior Data Scientist, extreme heat and maternal, placental and fetal physiology (Recruitment Notice No. THS-C/RN/16/2026) | BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India | Multiple levels | INR Rs 50,000/month. | Last Date: 2026-09-01 (Walk In) |
| Alzheimer’s Disease Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (FY27) | BrightFocus Foundation, United States | Postdoc | USD 100,000 per year for two years (USD 200,000 total). | 1 September 2026 |
| CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship | Cancer Research Institute, United States or abroad | Postdoc | USD 243,000 over three years. | 1 September 2026 |
| FEMS Meeting Attendance Grants | FEMS (Federation of European Microbiological Societies), Netherlands (open to members of FEMS Member Societies) | Multiple levels | EUR 750. | 1 September 2026 |
| HPI at UCT Research School PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships | Hasso Plattner Institute and University of Cape Town Digital Health Partnership, South Africa | Multiple levels | ZAR 262,200/year (PhD); ZAR 300,000 to 380,000/year (postdoc). | 1 September 2026 |
| Scholarship for International Graduate Students (Master’s study in Germany) | Heinrich Boell Stiftung (Heinrich Boell Foundation), Germany | Master’s | EUR 992/month base scholarship, plus allowances. | 1 September 2026 (Fall 2026 round; the window opened on 15 July 2026) |
| Scholarship for International Doctoral Candidates (PhD study in Germany) | Heinrich Boell Stiftung (Heinrich Boell Foundation), Germany | PhD | EUR 1,500/month base scholarship, plus allowances. | 1 September 2026 (Fall 2026 round; the window opened on 15 July 2026) |
| Biochemical Society Online Attendance Grants | The Biochemical Society, United Kingdom | Multiple levels | Up to GBP 500. | 1 September 2026, for online events after 1 October 2026 |
| General Travel Grants | The Biochemical Society, United Kingdom (applications accepted worldwide) | Multiple levels | GBP 1000. | 1 September 2026 |
| Lab Visit Grants | The Biochemical Society, United Kingdom (applications accepted worldwide) | Multiple levels | GBP 2000. | 1 September 2026 |
| Reintegration Fellowships, Autumn Call 2026 | The Carlsberg Foundation (Carlsbergfondet), Denmark | Postdoc | Two-year postdoctoral fellowship covering full salary plus operating expenses of DKK… | Deadline: 1 September 2026 |
| Post Doctoral Fellow, laboratory of Dr Reena Singh (Advertisement No. inStem/Temp/29/2026) | BRIC-inStem (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine), Bengaluru, India | Postdoc | One contractual Post Doctoral Fellow position for eleven months, renewable on review of… | 04-Sep-2026 on the open-positions listing; the advertisement PDF prints 04.09.2026 |
| Fjallraven Field Grant | The Explorers Club, in partnership with Fjallraven, Any country | Multiple levels | USD 5,000. | 6 September 2026 |
| Junior Research Fellow, laboratory of Dr Reena Singh (Advertisement No. inStem/Temp/36/2025) | BRIC-inStem (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine), Bengaluru, India | Msc | One contractual Junior Research Fellow post for twelve months, renewable on review of… | 07-Sep-2026 on the open-positions listing; the advertisement PDF prints 07.09.2026 |
| Human Technopole PhD positions via the SEMM National PhD Programme in Systems Medicine | Human Technopole (HT), Milan, Italy | Master’S Graduate, Doctoral Student | Five fully funded PhD positions with research carried out at Human Technopole in Milan… | 7 September 2026 |
| Concurso Fondecyt de Postdoctorado 2027 | ANID (Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo), Chile, Chile | Postdoc | Up to CLP 32,284,000/year, plus up to CLP 3,000,000 installation in year 1. | 8 September 2026 |
| Project Technical Support-II, multiplex bead-based viral nucleic acid detection platform, Dr Shailendra Mani lab (Recruitment Notice No. THS/RN/16/2026) | BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India | Bsc | Rs 20,000 a month plus house rent allowance, on a project developing an advanced… | Date of walk-in interview: 9th September 2026 |
| Project Research Scientist-II, Placenta Health Project (Recruitment Notice No. THS/RN/16/2026) | BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India | Mixed | Rs 67,000 a month plus house rent allowance on the Placenta Health Project, an adaptive… | Date of walk-in interview: 9th September 2026 |
| MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 | European Commission, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, EU Member States and Horizon Europe associated countries | Postdoc | Call budget of EUR 399.05 million. Support comprises a living allowance and a mobility… | 9 September 2026 |
| University Research Fellowship (URF) | The Royal Society, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland | Postdoc | Up to GBP 1,907,400 over 8 years. | 9 September 2026 |
| Senior Project Associate, whole-body lipid metabolism model for NAFLD (RN No. THS/RN/01/2026/08-I) | BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India | Postdoc | INR Rs 42,000/month + HRA. | Last Date: 2026-09-10 (Walk In) |
| University of Sydney Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship, international round | The University of Sydney, administering Australian Government RTP funding, Australia | Multiple levels | AUD 42,754/year. | 11 September 2026 |
| Junior Research Fellow, clathrin light chain in neural development, Dr Deepa Subramanyam lab (Advt. No. NCCS/Project Management Cell/P06/Online/2026) | BRIC-National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, India | Rs 37,000 a month plus house rent allowance, on a project running to 19 June 2027. The… | Last Date of Receipt of Application through Google Form is 14.09.2026 | |
| Senior Project Associate, INDIGO influenza vaccine project at CDSA (Recruitment Notice No. THS-C/RN/15/2026) | BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India | Early-Career | Rs 42,000 a month plus house rent allowance at the Clinical Development Services Agency… | Date of walk-in interview: 14th September 2026 |
| Rolex Explorers Club Grant | The Explorers Club, in partnership with Rolex, Any country | Multiple levels | USD 10,000. | 14 September 2026 |
| Individual Grants for Young Researchers 2026: Postdoctoral fellows in France, autumn session | Fondation ARC pour la recherche sur le cancer, France | Postdoc | EUR 57204. | 15 September 2026, 15h |
| Summer Research Scholarship Programme 2026/2027 | Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand | Mixed | A research project of up to ten weeks, about 400 hours, over the summer trimester… | A completed online application must be submitted, Tuesday 15 September 2026 |
| National Glaucoma Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (FY27) | BrightFocus Foundation, United States | Postdoc | USD 125,000 over two years. | 24 September 2026 |
| Beca de Doctorado BIO Fulbright ANID, Convocatoria 2026 | ANID (Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo), Chile, with the Comision Fulbright Chile, Chile | A full doctoral scholarship for Chileans to start a PhD at a United States university… | Fin del plazo de recepcion de postulaciones: lunes 28 de septiembre 2026 de Chile continental (end of the application period, Monday 28 September 2026 | |
| AACR-AstraZeneca Fellowship for Physician-Scientists for Digital Pathology and AI Training | American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), United States | Postdoc | USD 200000. | 29 September 2026 |
| Doctoral Research Scholarship 2027-2028 (B2), Regular component and Re-Entering Research component | Fonds de recherche du Quebec (FRQ), Canada | PhD | A doctoral research scholarship of 25,000 Canadian dollars a year, paid in term… | Deadline (application): September 29th, 2026 |
| UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers’ Fellowships Programme (UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowships Programme), Cycle 2026 | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Japan | Early-Career | Up to USD 10,000 as a lump sum for a stay of 3 to 9 months. | Deadline for Candidate Submission: 30 September 2026 |
| Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI), Spring 2027 term | US Department of Energy, Office of Science (Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists), United States | Undergraduate | USD 650. | 30 September 2026 |
| CMRI Summer Student Scholarships 2026/27 | Children’s Medical Research Institute, Australia | Several summer scholarships for undergraduate science or medical science students to work… | Applications for summer student scholarships open on the 28th of August and close on the 1st of October 2026 | |
| Master’s Research Scholarships 2027-2028 (B1), Regular component and Re-Entering Research component | Fonds de recherche du Quebec (FRQ), Canada | Msc | A master’s research scholarship of 20,000 Canadian dollars a year, paid in semester… | Deadline (application): October 1st, 2026 |
| HDF Postdoctoral Fellowships | Huntington’s Disease Foundation (formerly the Hereditary Disease Foundation), Worldwide (laboratories in any country) | Postdoc | USD 100,000/year for 2 years. | 1 October 2026 (letter of intent) |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship | Parkinson’s Foundation, Worldwide (US and international institutions) | Postdoc | USD 140,000 over 2 years (USD 160,000 for clinical neurologists). | 1 October 2026 (letter of intent) |
| Postdoctoral Scholarships 2027-2028 (B3) | Fonds de recherche du Quebec (FRQ), Canada | Postdoc | A postdoctoral scholarship of 45,000 Canadian dollars a year for a minimum of six months… | Deadline (application): October 8th, 2026 |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship Award | Foundation Fighting Blindness, Worldwide (domestic or international research institutions) | Postdoc | USD 80,000/year for 2 years. | 8 October 2026 (letter of intent) |
| Vacation Internship Program 2026/27 | Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia | A paid laboratory placement of up to six weeks in a Baker Institute research laboratory… | Applications close Sunday, 11 October 2026 | |
| 2027 Summer Research Program (Research Experience Program) | The University of Queensland, Australia | Mixed | A six-week full-time research placement inside a UQ research unit, 11 January to 19… | You must submit an online application form, Sunday 11 October 2026 |
| Promotionsfoerderung (doctoral scholarships), October 2026 call | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Germany | PhD | A monthly stipend of 1,650 euros for a doctoral candidate, plus a research allowance the… | Opening of the Call 1-14 October 2026. Each call remains open for two weeks, exactly 14 days. |
| ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance at Research Conferences | ACM-W (Association for Computing Machinery, Women in Computing), United States (travel funded worldwide) | Multiple levels | USD 1200. | 15 October 2026, for conferences held 1 December 2026 to 30 January 2027 |
| Post-Doctoral Save Our Scientists (SOS) Grant Program (2027 cycle) | Autism Science Foundation, United States | Postdoc | Up to USD 25,000. | 15 October 2026 |
| NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), 2027 competition | US National Science Foundation (NSF), United States | Multiple levels | USD 37000. | 19 October 2026 (Life Sciences field of study) |
| Honjo International Scholarship Foundation Scholarship for Foreign Students (2027 intake) | Honjo International Scholarship Foundation (HISF), Japan | Multiple levels | JPY 230,000 / 210,000 / 180,000 per month depending on degree length, for approximately… | 31 October 2026 (the online application system runs from 1 September 2026 to 31 October 2026) |
| Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Scholarship (Overseas Candidates), 2027 enrolment | Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation, Japan | Multiple levels | JPY 100,000 per month (undergraduate) or JPY 140,000 per month (master’s and doctoral)… | 31 October 2026 (the application system opens on 1 October 2026) |
| Churchill Scholarship | The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, United Kingdom | Master’S | One year of master’s study at Churchill College, Cambridge. Covers tuition, round-trip… | 2 November 2026 |
| Graduate Research Fellowship | National Ataxia Foundation (NAF), Worldwide (US and international institutions) | PhD | USD 25,000 for 1 year. | 18 November 2026 (letter of intent) |
| Post-doctoral Fellowship Award | National Ataxia Foundation (NAF), Worldwide (US and international institutions) | Postdoc | USD 40,000 for 1 year. | 18 November 2026 (letter of intent) |
| Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program (2027) | KidneyCure, the foundation of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), United States | Postdoc | USD 50,000 per year for up to two years. | 19 November 2026 |
| KidneyCure Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award Program (2027) | KidneyCure, the foundation of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), United States | PhD | USD 30,000 per year for up to two years. | 19 November 2026 |
| CRG International PhD Programme, 2027 call | Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain | PhD | Up to 20 fully funded positions. Selected students get a four-year employment contract… | Deadline 22nd November 2026 |
| AHRI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (PDRF/2026) | Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), South Africa | Postdoc | A one-year renewable postdoctoral research fellowship at AHRI’s KwaZulu-Natal campuses… | The deadline is 31 December, 2026. |
| Summer Student Fellowships | Parkinson’s Foundation, Worldwide (US and international institutions) | Undergraduate | USD 4,000 for 10 weeks. | 20 January 2027 (full application) |
| Visiting Scholar Award | Parkinson’s Foundation, Worldwide (US and international institutions) | PhD | USD 4,000 stipend. | 20 January 2027 (full application) |
| Summer Student Program (SSP) 2027 | The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), United States | Undergraduate | USD 7500. | 25 January 2027 |
| AGA-Aman Armaan Ahmed Family SURF for Success Program (summer undergraduate research fellowship) | American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), United States | Undergraduate | USD 6,200 stipend for a 10-week summer fellowship, 6 awards. | 3 February 2027 (applications open 7 October 2026) |
| AGA-Dr. Harvey Young Education and Development Foundation’s Young Guts Scholars Program | American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), United States | Undergraduate | USD 6,075 to USD 7,575 per award, 6 awards, over a 10-month term. | 3 February 2027 (applications open 7 October 2026) |
| 2027 Winter Research Program (Research Experience Program) | The University of Queensland, Australia | Mixed | A four-week full-time research placement inside a UQ research unit, 28 June to 23 July… | You must submit an online application form, Sunday 11 April 2027 |
| CRG Undergraduate and Master Student Fellowships, academic year 2026/2027 | Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain | Mixed | Ten fellowship-funded research projects across CRG groups and core facilities for the… | Open until filled |
| Walter Benjamin Programme | DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation), Germany | Postdoc | Funds an early-career postdoc to carry out their own research project, abroad as a… | Rolling |
| FARA Graduate Research Fellowship | Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA), United States | PhD | Up to USD 50,000 per year for up to three years. | See official page |
| FARA Postdoctoral Fellowship | Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA), United States | Postdoc | USD Trainee salary for up to two years. | See official page |
| Wellcome Early-Career Awards | The Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom | Early-Career | Your salary plus up to 400,000 pounds for research expenses, usually over five years… | Rolling |
Asia-Pacific: open this week
Amgen Scholars Australia Program, Summer 2027
Funded undergraduate summer research placement at the University of Melbourne, running 3…
Deadline: 31 August 2026 · not open to international applicants
The 2027 Postdoctoral Scholar Program (First Round)
A full-time postdoctoral appointment at Academia Sinica running 1 January 2027 to 31…
Deadline: August 1 to September 1, 2026
University of Sydney Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship, international round
AUD 42,754/year.
Deadline: 11 September 2026
Summer Research Scholarship Programme 2026/2027
A research project of up to ten weeks, about 400 hours, over the summer trimester…
Deadline: A completed online application must be submitted, Tuesday 15 September 2026
CMRI Summer Student Scholarships 2026/27
Several summer scholarships for undergraduate science or medical science students to work…
Deadline: Applications for summer student scholarships open on the 28th of August and close on the 1st of October 2026
Vacation Internship Program 2026/27
A paid laboratory placement of up to six weeks in a Baker Institute research laboratory…
Deadline: Applications close Sunday, 11 October 2026
2027 Summer Research Program (Research Experience Program)
A six-week full-time research placement inside a UQ research unit, 11 January to 19…
Deadline: You must submit an online application form, Sunday 11 October 2026
Honjo International Scholarship Foundation Scholarship for Foreign Students (2027 intake)
JPY 230,000 / 210,000 / 180,000 per month depending on degree length, for approximately…
Deadline: 31 October 2026 (the online application system runs from 1 September 2026 to 31 October 2026)
Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Scholarship (Overseas Candidates), 2027 enrolment
JPY 100,000 per month (undergraduate) or JPY 140,000 per month (master’s and doctoral)…
Deadline: 31 October 2026 (the application system opens on 1 October 2026)
2027 Winter Research Program (Research Experience Program)
A four-week full-time research placement inside a UQ research unit, 28 June to 23 July…
Deadline: You must submit an online application form, Sunday 11 April 2027
India: open this week
Project Associate-I, Dr Diya Binoy Joseph Lab (Advt. inStem/Temp/28/2026)
INR Rs. 31,000/month + HRA (NET-qualified) or Rs. 25,000/month + HRA.
Deadline: 31 August 2026
Project Associate-II and Project Assistant, extramural projects (Advt. No. NCCS/Project Management Cell/P05/Online/2026)
INR Rs 28,000/month + HRA.
Deadline: Last Date of Receipt of Application through Google Form is 31.08.2026
Project Associate-I, NIPGR Short-Term Research Fellowship scheme (advertisement dated 17-08-2026)
One Project Associate-I post under Dr Senthil-Kumar Muthappa, paid at DST/DBT norms. The…
Deadline: 31 August 2026
Project Associate-I, differential virulence and drug resistance in bovine tuberculosis, Dr Nisheeth Agarwal lab (RN No. THS/RN/01/2026/08-I)
INR Rs 31,000/month + HRA.
Deadline: Last Date: 2026-08-31 (Walk In)
Junior Data Scientist, extreme heat and maternal, placental and fetal physiology (Recruitment Notice No. THS-C/RN/16/2026)
INR Rs 50,000/month.
Deadline: Last Date: 2026-09-01 (Walk In)
Post Doctoral Fellow, laboratory of Dr Reena Singh (Advertisement No. inStem/Temp/29/2026)
One contractual Post Doctoral Fellow position for eleven months, renewable on review of…
Deadline: 04-Sep-2026 on the open-positions listing; the advertisement PDF prints 04.09.2026
Junior Research Fellow, laboratory of Dr Reena Singh (Advertisement No. inStem/Temp/36/2025)
One contractual Junior Research Fellow post for twelve months, renewable on review of…
Deadline: 07-Sep-2026 on the open-positions listing; the advertisement PDF prints 07.09.2026
Project Technical Support-II, multiplex bead-based viral nucleic acid detection platform, Dr Shailendra Mani lab (Recruitment Notice No. THS/RN/16/2026)
Rs 20,000 a month plus house rent allowance, on a project developing an advanced…
Deadline: Date of walk-in interview: 9th September 2026
Project Research Scientist-II, Placenta Health Project (Recruitment Notice No. THS/RN/16/2026)
Rs 67,000 a month plus house rent allowance on the Placenta Health Project, an adaptive…
Deadline: Date of walk-in interview: 9th September 2026
Senior Project Associate, whole-body lipid metabolism model for NAFLD (RN No. THS/RN/01/2026/08-I)
INR Rs 42,000/month + HRA.
Deadline: Last Date: 2026-09-10 (Walk In)
Junior Research Fellow, clathrin light chain in neural development, Dr Deepa Subramanyam lab (Advt. No. NCCS/Project Management Cell/P06/Online/2026)
Rs 37,000 a month plus house rent allowance, on a project running to 19 June 2027. The…
Deadline: Last Date of Receipt of Application through Google Form is 14.09.2026
Senior Project Associate, INDIGO influenza vaccine project at CDSA (Recruitment Notice No. THS-C/RN/15/2026)
Rs 42,000 a month plus house rent allowance at the Clinical Development Services Agency…
Deadline: Date of walk-in interview: 14th September 2026
Africa: open this week
Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Scholarships for Postgraduate Study
A limited number of scholarships each year for postgraduate study at local and…
Deadline: 31 August 2026, for studies commencing January to June 2027
HPI at UCT Research School PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships
ZAR 262,200/year (PhD); ZAR 300,000 to 380,000/year (postdoc).
Deadline: 1 September 2026
AHRI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (PDRF/2026)
A one-year renewable postdoctoral research fellowship at AHRI’s KwaZulu-Natal campuses…
Deadline: The deadline is 31 December, 2026.
Global: open this week
Pathfinder Grant (formerly The Exploration Fund Grant)
USD 2,500 to USD 5,000.
Deadline: 31 August 2026
Rising Explorer Grant
Awards average USD 2,000.
Deadline: 31 August 2026
Fjallraven Field Grant
USD 5,000.
Deadline: 6 September 2026
Rolex Explorers Club Grant
USD 10,000.
Deadline: 14 September 2026
UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers’ Fellowships Programme (UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowships Programme), Cycle 2026
Up to USD 10,000 as a lump sum for a stay of 3 to 9 months.
Deadline: Deadline for Candidate Submission: 30 September 2026
ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance at Research Conferences
USD 1200.
Deadline: 15 October 2026, for conferences held 1 December 2026 to 30 January 2027
FARA Graduate Research Fellowship
Up to USD 50,000 per year for up to three years.
Deadline: See official page
FARA Postdoctoral Fellowship
USD Trainee salary for up to two years.
Deadline: See official page
North America: open this week
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (FY27)
USD 100,000 per year for two years (USD 200,000 total).
Deadline: 1 September 2026
CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship
USD 243,000 over three years.
Deadline: 1 September 2026
National Glaucoma Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (FY27)
USD 125,000 over two years.
Deadline: 24 September 2026
AACR-AstraZeneca Fellowship for Physician-Scientists for Digital Pathology and AI Training
USD 200000.
Deadline: 29 September 2026
Doctoral Research Scholarship 2027-2028 (B2), Regular component and Re-Entering Research component
A doctoral research scholarship of 25,000 Canadian dollars a year, paid in term…
Deadline: Deadline (application): September 29th, 2026
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI), Spring 2027 term
USD 650.
Deadline: 30 September 2026 · not open to international applicants
Master’s Research Scholarships 2027-2028 (B1), Regular component and Re-Entering Research component
A master’s research scholarship of 20,000 Canadian dollars a year, paid in semester…
Deadline: Deadline (application): October 1st, 2026
HDF Postdoctoral Fellowships
USD 100,000/year for 2 years.
Deadline: 1 October 2026 (letter of intent)
Postdoctoral Fellowship
USD 140,000 over 2 years (USD 160,000 for clinical neurologists).
Deadline: 1 October 2026 (letter of intent)
Postdoctoral Scholarships 2027-2028 (B3)
A postdoctoral scholarship of 45,000 Canadian dollars a year for a minimum of six months…
Deadline: Deadline (application): October 8th, 2026
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
USD 80,000/year for 2 years.
Deadline: 8 October 2026 (letter of intent)
Post-Doctoral Save Our Scientists (SOS) Grant Program (2027 cycle)
Up to USD 25,000.
Deadline: 15 October 2026
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), 2027 competition
USD 37000.
Deadline: 19 October 2026 (Life Sciences field of study) · not open to international applicants
Graduate Research Fellowship
USD 25,000 for 1 year.
Deadline: 18 November 2026 (letter of intent)
Post-doctoral Fellowship Award
USD 40,000 for 1 year.
Deadline: 18 November 2026 (letter of intent)
Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program (2027)
USD 50,000 per year for up to two years.
Deadline: 19 November 2026
KidneyCure Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award Program (2027)
USD 30,000 per year for up to two years.
Deadline: 19 November 2026
Summer Student Fellowships
USD 4,000 for 10 weeks.
Deadline: 20 January 2027 (full application)
Visiting Scholar Award
USD 4,000 stipend.
Deadline: 20 January 2027 (full application)
Summer Student Program (SSP) 2027
USD 7500.
Deadline: 25 January 2027
AGA-Aman Armaan Ahmed Family SURF for Success Program (summer undergraduate research fellowship)
USD 6,200 stipend for a 10-week summer fellowship, 6 awards.
Deadline: 3 February 2027 (applications open 7 October 2026) · not open to international applicants
AGA-Dr. Harvey Young Education and Development Foundation’s Young Guts Scholars Program
USD 6,075 to USD 7,575 per award, 6 awards, over a 10-month term.
Deadline: 3 February 2027 (applications open 7 October 2026) · not open to international applicants
Europe: open this week
FEMS Meeting Attendance Grants
EUR 750.
Deadline: 1 September 2026
Scholarship for International Graduate Students (Master’s study in Germany)
EUR 992/month base scholarship, plus allowances.
Deadline: 1 September 2026 (Fall 2026 round; the window opened on 15 July 2026)
Scholarship for International Doctoral Candidates (PhD study in Germany)
EUR 1,500/month base scholarship, plus allowances.
Deadline: 1 September 2026 (Fall 2026 round; the window opened on 15 July 2026)
Biochemical Society Online Attendance Grants
Up to GBP 500.
Deadline: 1 September 2026, for online events after 1 October 2026
General Travel Grants
GBP 1000.
Deadline: 1 September 2026
Lab Visit Grants
GBP 2000.
Deadline: 1 September 2026
Reintegration Fellowships, Autumn Call 2026
Two-year postdoctoral fellowship covering full salary plus operating expenses of DKK…
Deadline: Deadline: 1 September 2026
Human Technopole PhD positions via the SEMM National PhD Programme in Systems Medicine
Five fully funded PhD positions with research carried out at Human Technopole in Milan…
Deadline: 7 September 2026
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026
Call budget of EUR 399.05 million. Support comprises a living allowance and a mobility…
Deadline: 9 September 2026
University Research Fellowship (URF)
Up to GBP 1,907,400 over 8 years.
Deadline: 9 September 2026
Individual Grants for Young Researchers 2026: Postdoctoral fellows in France, autumn session
EUR 57204.
Deadline: 15 September 2026, 15h
Promotionsfoerderung (doctoral scholarships), October 2026 call
A monthly stipend of 1,650 euros for a doctoral candidate, plus a research allowance the…
Deadline: Opening of the Call 1-14 October 2026. Each call remains open for two weeks, exactly 14 days.
Churchill Scholarship
One year of master’s study at Churchill College, Cambridge. Covers tuition, round-trip…
Deadline: 2 November 2026 · not open to international applicants
CRG International PhD Programme, 2027 call
Up to 20 fully funded positions. Selected students get a four-year employment contract…
Deadline: Deadline 22nd November 2026
CRG Undergraduate and Master Student Fellowships, academic year 2026/2027
Ten fellowship-funded research projects across CRG groups and core facilities for the…
Deadline: Open until filled
Walter Benjamin Programme
Funds an early-career postdoc to carry out their own research project, abroad as a…
Deadline: Rolling · not open to international applicants
Wellcome Early-Career Awards
Your salary plus up to 400,000 pounds for research expenses, usually over five years…
Deadline: Rolling
Latin America: open this week
Concurso Fondecyt de Postdoctorado 2027
Up to CLP 32,284,000/year, plus up to CLP 3,000,000 installation in year 1.
Deadline: 8 September 2026 · not open to international applicants
Beca de Doctorado BIO Fulbright ANID, Convocatoria 2026
A full doctoral scholarship for Chileans to start a PhD at a United States university…
Deadline: Fin del plazo de recepcion de postulaciones: lunes 28 de septiembre 2026 de Chile continental (end of the application period, Monday 28 September 2026 · not open to international applicants
These are this week’s openings. The full list of every verified opportunity, with filters, is at stemskillslab.com/opportunities.
What closes first?
Eight deadlines fall today, 31 August 2026, and thirty more fall between tomorrow and 15 September. The eight today are four Indian institute project posts, at BRIC-inStem Bengaluru, BRIC-NCCS Pune, BRIC-NIPGR New Delhi and BRIC-THSTI Faridabad; the Amgen Scholars Australia Program for summer 2027 at the University of Melbourne; the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust postgraduate scholarships in South Africa; and the two Explorers Club field grants, the Pathfinder Grant and the Rising Explorer Grant, both at 6:00 pm US Eastern Time.
The first fortnight of September is the densest stretch this index has carried since the lane started. Twelve calls close on 1 September alone.
| Closes | How many | The ones worth opening first |
|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2026 | 12 | The CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship, USD 243,000 over three years, 11:59 pm US Eastern Time, and the Cancer Research Institute states there are no citizenship restrictions. The BrightFocus Alzheimer’s Disease Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, USD 100,000 a year for two years. Both Heinrich Boell Stiftung scholarships for study in Germany, at EUR 992 a month for a master’s and EUR 1,500 for a doctorate, with priority for applicants from OECD DAC countries including India who have not yet moved to Germany. The Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowships at 16:00. And three Biochemical Society grants that need twelve months of prior membership, so read that line before you start. |
| 4 to 8 September | 4 | The BRIC-inStem postdoctoral post in Dr Reena Singh’s laboratory on 4 September. The Fjallraven Field Grant, USD 5,000, on 6 September at 6:00 pm ET. The BRIC-inStem Junior Research Fellow post and 14 fully funded Human Technopole PhD positions in Milan on 7 September. Chile’s Fondecyt de Postdoctorado 2027 on 8 September at 16:00 continental Chile time. |
| 9 to 11 September | 6 | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 and the Royal Society University Research Fellowship, both on 9 September, the latter worth up to GBP 1,907,400 over eight years. Two BRIC-THSTI walk-in posts in Faridabad on 9 September, one of them open to a three-year bachelor’s graduate. A third THSTI walk-in on 10 September. The University of Sydney Research Training Program stipend scholarship, AUD 42,754 a year, on 11 September. |
| 14 to 15 September | 8 | The BRIC-NCCS Pune Junior Research Fellow post at Rs 37,000 a month plus HRA and the BRIC-THSTI INDIGO clinical trials post at Rs 42,000, both on 14 September, alongside the Rolex Explorers Club Grant at USD 10,000. Then on 15 September the University of Cape Town postdoctoral fellowships at ZAR 350,000 a year, the DSTI-CSIR bursary at ZAR 160,000 to 180,000 plus a laptop allowance, Fondation ARC’s postdoctoral grant at 15h Paris time, and the Victoria University of Wellington summer scholarships. |
Three warnings attach to that list. The Victoria University of Wellington scholarship has a gate in front of the gate. Its deadline is 4:30 pm on 15 September, but you cannot see the project list, and therefore cannot apply, until you email the programme for access, and the university says it will not accept access requests after 1 September. That is tomorrow, and the university prints no year against it, so we store no date for it. Ask for access today if this one interests you at all. Four of the September entries are Indian walk-in interviews, which means there is no form, no confirmation email and no upload: there is a room in Faridabad at 9:00 am, originals checked at the desk, and phones deposited at reception. And a single THSTI advertisement PDF covers several posts with several different walk-in dates, so match on the named principal investigator and the project title rather than the job title.
Why are five of this week’s new entries in Australia and New Zealand?
Late August and early September are the low season for this index. Nearly every annual student scheme on a northern-hemisphere cycle has closed for 2026 and has not yet announced 2027. Five of this week’s twenty-one new entries come from the other half of the world, where the academic year runs the other way and the summer 2027 dates are printed now.
| Programme | Pays | Length and dates | Closes | Who can apply |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Queensland 2027 Summer Research Program | AUD 3,000 grant | Six weeks, 11 January to 19 February 2027 | 11 October 2026, 11:59pm | Students already enrolled at UQ in an undergraduate, honours or postgraduate coursework programme, the Doctor of Medicine excluded. No nationality condition is stated anywhere, including in the FAQ. |
| University of Queensland 2027 Winter Research Program | AUD 2,000 grant | Four weeks, 28 June to 23 July 2027 | 11 April 2027, 11:59pm | The same UQ enrolment rule. Listed here because a student who misses October still has a dated second chance rather than an unspecified next year. |
| Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute Vacation Internship Program 2026/27 | Up to AUD 500 a week, calculated at AUD 100 a day | Up to six weeks, about November 2026 to February 2027 | 11 October 2026 | Second-last or final year undergraduates, or recent graduates, enrolled at or recently graduated from an Australian university, in science, biomedicine, health sciences or public health. |
| Children’s Medical Research Institute Summer Student Scholarships 2026/27 | Not published anywhere on CMRI’s own site | Eight to twelve weeks, mid November to February | 1 October 2026 | Undergraduate science or medical science students in first year or higher, which is unusually early access. The placement is at Westmead in Sydney. |
| Victoria University of Wellington Summer Research Scholarship 2026/2027 | NZD 8,000 minimum, tax free | Up to ten weeks, about 400 hours | 15 September 2026, 4:30pm | Domestic and international students enrolled full time at any New Zealand university in an undergraduate, honours or Part 1 master’s degree, with at least two years of an undergraduate degree completed. |
Two things separate this group from the northern-hemisphere programmes in the rest of the index, and both are worth understanding before you spend an evening on an application. Four of the five are open only to students already enrolled at that university or in that country. That is a restriction on where you study, not on your passport, and it is a different kind of barrier from a citizenship rule: it cannot be argued around, but it also means an international student already at the University of Queensland or at a New Zealand university is squarely inside the rules. And the UQ grant is not wages. Participation is formally an Unpaid Work Experience arrangement, so the AUD 3,000 is a grant, and a six-week summer placement consumes your entire thirty-day annual unpaid work experience allowance. Check your remaining days before you apply, because that allowance, and not the money, is what usually stops a student taking both rounds in one year.
Why do five of the new entries not say what they pay?
Five of this week’s twenty-one new entries do not print what they pay. That is not a defect in our records. It is the funder’s own page saying nothing, and we would rather show you the gap than fill it with a plausible number.
Two BRIC-inStem adverts are the clearest case. The Junior Research Fellow and Post Doctoral Fellow posts in Dr Reena Singh’s laboratory in Bengaluru, closing 7 and 4 September, both carry a general condition saying the Institute may fix the consolidated salary lower or higher “within the given range” and then print no range at all. So the pay is genuinely unknown from the advert. Both posts state an application fee of nil, both are online-only through the inStem job portal, and both screen applications as they arrive, which makes applying early worth more here than on a scheme with a fixed review date.
The Children’s Medical Research Institute case is the one to watch out for, because its page does carry a dollar figure and that figure belongs to something else. The only amount on the CMRI student page is AUD 40,000 a year for up to three and a half years, and it attaches to the separate PhD scholarships administered by the University of Sydney, not to the summer scholarships. Reading the nearest number on a page as the number for the scheme you are looking at is how a wrong figure enters circulation, so we print none and suggest you ask before committing eight weeks.
The Africa Health Research Institute has the same shape. Its postdoctoral fellowship, an open call closing 31 December 2026 at the institute’s KwaZulu-Natal campuses, prints no rand figure anywhere on the domain. The phrase “a competitive stipend” does appear on the site, under the PhD programme rather than the postdoc, and carrying it across would be an invention. Two costs do fall on an international applicant there without being AHRI fees: your foreign qualification must be evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority before you apply, and you arrange your own visa.
And the CRG International PhD Programme in Barcelona describes rather than quantifies. It offers up to 20 fully funded positions on four-year employment contracts under Spanish national regulations, which means a salary rather than a stipend, with full health and occupational insurance and inclusion in Spanish social security. No figure is published. What the call does state, and what very few PhD calls state, is that accommodation and flights are provided for candidates invited to the in-person interview round in Barcelona, so the cost of reaching the final stage does not fall on the applicant. The deadline is 22 November 2026 and the programme covers computational biology, health genomics, bioinformatics and machine learning applied to biology, which makes it one of the better fits in this index for this site’s readers. Our computational biology skills roadmap sets out the order to build those skills in.
Can a non-Canadian apply for the Quebec scholarships?
The three Fonds de recherche du Quebec competitions that opened this week are the most useful North American entries in this issue for a reader outside North America, and the reason is a single clause that most summaries of them leave out.
| Competition | Pays | Maximum | Closes (all 16:00 EST) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B1, Master’s Research Scholarships 2027-2028 | CAD 20,000 a year | CAD 40,000 over six semesters | 1 October 2026 |
| B2, Doctoral Research Scholarship 2027-2028 | CAD 25,000 a year | CAD 100,000 over twelve terms | 29 September 2026 |
| B3, Postdoctoral Scholarships 2027-2028 | CAD 45,000 a year | CAD 90,000 over two years | 8 October 2026 |
The default route requires Canadian citizenship or permanent residence with a valid RAMQ card, and then the rules say an applicant who is neither is still eligible. For the master’s and doctoral competitions that route needs proof of admission to a programme of study at a Quebec university, or a consent form from your research supervisor. For the postdoctoral competition it is a consent form plus a letter of acceptance from your supervisor, with no admission alternative. In all three cases the condition attached is that you carry out the work in Quebec, and for the master’s and doctoral awards you cannot use the scholarship for a cotutelle with a university outside Quebec. So the barrier is where the work happens, not what passport you hold.
Three practical details decide most applications. Timing is measured in terms already completed, not in years. The master’s competition wants you enrolled for no more than three full-time semesters before 1 May 2027; the doctoral competition allows fourteen full-time terms, or twenty for direct-entry and fast-tracked candidates; the postdoctoral competition wants a doctorate obtained within the last two years, or a thesis you plan to submit by 1 March 2028, with extensions for parental leave, bereavement, health reasons, a career period outside research, or disability. Submitting is a status, not an action. The rules state that at the deadline the application must show “Submitted to the Fonds” in the FRQnet portal, so an application saved but not submitted at 15:59 is not an application. And you get one shot a year across the whole family. An applicant may submit to only one FRQ training award programme in a given year, so choose before you start rather than after.
Results for all three are announced in April 2027, and none of them charges a fee.
Which of these are closed to international applicants?
Thirty-two of the 205 entries are closed to some applicants by nationality, residence or immigration status, and a further 35 say nothing at all about it, which we record as unstated rather than as an open door. The 138 that place no citizenship condition on the applicant are at opportunities open to international applicants. Four restrictions among this week’s new entries are worth naming, because three of them are easy to miss and one is the opposite of what the scheme’s name suggests.
The UNESCO fellowship is not open to any nationality, and India is not on its list. The UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers’ Fellowships Programme, also called the Keizo Obuchi programme, closes on 30 September 2026 and pays up to USD 10,000 for a research stay of three to nine months at a Japanese university, with an artificial intelligence stream that covers AI for ecosystem monitoring and biodiversity assessment and responsible AI use in scientific research. Eligibility is a closed list: applicants must be nationals of one of the 83 Member States and Associate Members named in Annex 1 of the call, and India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal are not on the 2026 list. There is a second thing that page will not tell you plainly. Applications reach UNESCO only through your own National Commission for UNESCO, and the instructions say to submit to that Commission “at least 2 weeks before the required deadline” without giving a date. Your working deadline is therefore around the middle of September, not the end of it.
A Fulbright scholarship that is closed to everyone except Chileans, and aimed at the applicants most schemes screen out. The Beca de Doctorado BIO Fulbright ANID closes on 28 September 2026 at 13:00 continental Chile time, not at midnight, and funds a full PhD at a United States university for up to four years. It is open only to Chilean nationals resident in Chile, and its targeting is unusual enough to read twice: it is for applicants who do not have enough English to compete on equal terms in the regular ANID and Fulbright overseas competitions, and who are in socioeconomic vulnerability. You must meet at least two of three criteria, being state-subsidised secondary schooling, a needs-based undergraduate loan or bursary, or parents whose education stopped at or below completed secondary, and you must also show an undergraduate average of 5.0 or above out of 7.0 or a place in the top 30 per cent of your cohort. Fulbright sponsorship is a prerequisite and lapses if ANID does not then select you.
Wellcome’s Early-Career Awards have no deadline and a date that behaves like one. The scheme accepts applications year round, pays your salary plus up to GBP 400,000 for research expenses over about five years, and funds visa and work permit costs. The restriction is on where your administering organisation sits, not on your nationality, and it narrows on 29 October 2026: from that date Wellcome will accept lead applicants only from eligible organisations in the United Kingdom and in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia. Applications submitted on or before 28 October 2026 are assessed under the current, wider rules, which also cover the Republic of Ireland. India is excluded as a host location under both the current and the future rules, so an India-based reader would need to be hosted elsewhere. We store no deadline against this record, because printing 28 October as the deadline would mislead every applicant it does not bind.
And the Studienstiftung’s doctoral scholarship is open to any nationality on one condition. Nationality is irrelevant if the doctorate is done at a German university where the thesis will also be submitted, and you must already have been accepted onto that programme. It pays EUR 1,650 a month for three years, extendable by up to six months to a maximum of 42 months. The application window is the thing to diarise: the foundation has replaced its rolling doctoral intake with four fixed calls, each open for exactly fourteen days, and the next runs 1 to 14 October 2026 for the selection meeting in May 2027. Applications are submitted jointly with your academic supervisor, so the conversation to have this week is with them.
Which of these can an MSc student in India apply to directly?
Six new Indian institute project posts entered the index this week, and four more close today. These remain the most direct route in the whole index for anyone holding or finishing an MSc: they are at Government of India research institutes, none charges a fee to apply, and none of them will still be open in October. The full set lives at opportunities in India.
| Institute | Post | Monthly pay | Closes | How you apply |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRIC-inStem, Bengaluru | Post Doctoral Fellow, Dr Reena Singh lab (inStem/Temp/29/2026) | Not printed on the advert | 4 September 2026 | Online only through the inStem job portal; two-page CV, one-page motivation letter, two referees, one PDF |
| BRIC-inStem, Bengaluru | Junior Research Fellow, Dr Reena Singh lab (inStem/Temp/36/2025) | Not printed on the advert | 7 September 2026 | Same portal and same document set; applications screened as they arrive |
| BRIC-THSTI, Faridabad | Project Technical Support-II, multiplex viral nucleic acid detection, Dr Shailendra Mani lab | Rs 20,000 + HRA | 9 September 2026, walk-in | Walk-in at 9:00 am, no form, originals checked at the desk |
| BRIC-THSTI, Faridabad | Project Research Scientist-II, Placenta Health Project, Dr Nitya Wadhwa lab | Rs 67,000 + HRA | 9 September 2026, walk-in | Walk-in at 9:00 am; written test, skill test or interview on the day |
| BRIC-NCCS, Pune | Junior Research Fellow, clathrin light chain in neural development, Dr Deepa Subramanyam lab | Rs 37,000 + HRA | 14 September 2026 | Google Form; a second post on the same advert pays Rs 31,000 or Rs 25,000 + HRA |
| BRIC-THSTI, Faridabad | Senior Project Associate, INDIGO influenza vaccine project at CDSA | Rs 42,000 + HRA | 14 September 2026, walk-in | Walk-in at 9:00 am with resume, document photocopies and originals |
The BRIC-THSTI Project Technical Support-II post is the one to look at if you have a bachelor’s degree and think this index is not for you. It takes a three-year graduation degree in any branch of life sciences with two years of post-qualification experience, or a Class 12 science pass with a medical laboratory technology diploma and five years. Gel electrophoresis, molecular assays and serological assays are the named skills. At Rs 20,000 a month plus house rent allowance it is the lowest-paid entry in this table, and it is also one of very few adverts anywhere in the index that a bachelor’s-level candidate can answer directly.
At the other end, the Project Research Scientist-II post on the same walk-in date pays Rs 67,000 a month plus HRA and takes either a postgraduate life sciences degree with three years of research laboratory experience or an awarded PhD, with the age limit at 40. Both are on the Placenta Health Project, an adaptive dose-finding platform trial. The BRIC-NCCS Junior Research Fellow post is the best-paid entry route in the table for someone with NET or GATE, at Rs 37,000 a month plus HRA on a project running to June 2027, and its stated desirable is hands-on Drosophila work: setting up crosses, dissection, immunocytochemistry, confocal imaging and molecular cloning.
Three practical notes hold across the group. A walk-in is not a deadline in the ordinary sense. There is nothing to submit and nothing to confirm, only a room in Faridabad at 9:00 am on the day, with originals checked at the desk and mobile phones deposited at reception. If you cannot be physically present that morning, the post is not available to you at any price. Most codes want CSIR-UGC NET or GATE, and on several posts the test decides the rate rather than eligibility, separating Rs 31,000 from Rs 25,000. And none of these adverts prints a nationality clause, which is not the same as an open door: these are temporary Government of India project posts, so our records say the condition is not stated rather than claiming that anyone may apply. If you are still assembling the skills these adverts screen for, our free assessments and certificates give you something verifiable to attach while the next advert is still being written.
Why are five verified opportunities missing from this list?
Five opportunities were verified this week and are still not on this page, and one of them is a real loss. Saying so is the point of this section, because a roundup that shows only what survived teaches you nothing about how to read a funder’s page yourself.
Two Indian posts died on a date that cannot be read. The BRIC-NIPGR Research Associate-I post on climate-resilient chickpea and brassica by gene editing, at Rs 58,000 a month plus 27 per cent house rent allowance under a Gates Foundation project, prints its closing date in the vacancy table as 11/09/2026 and nowhere else. Both components of that date are twelve or less, so it reads equally well as 11 September and as 9 November. The advertisement PDF itself gives no date at all, only “within 15 days from the date of advertisement”, and counting fifteen days forward from the advertisement would mean we supplied the date rather than the funder. A second reader searched the whole domain for the same date written with a month name and did not find one. The BRIC-NIAB Project Technical Support-III post in Hyderabad failed the same way, on “04-09-2026”, with the added problem that its notification lives on niab.org.in while the institute’s content site is niab.res.in. Both posts are real. Neither is publishable by us. If either interests you, the two listing pages are worth opening yourself, and the institutes are worth an email asking them to print the month.
The DBT BioCARe programme for women researchers is the loss, and it is our fault rather than the funder’s. It is a career re-entry scheme for Indian women researchers who are currently unemployed, closing 23 September 2026, offering a consolidated project grant plus a personal fellowship for up to three years, restricted to first-time grant holders with no regular position. The date is unambiguous, printed as “23rd September, 2026”. Our two independent readers cited two different pages on the same funder’s site as the place a reader should go, and our own rule drops a record when its two readings disagree about where to send you. The rule cost us a good opportunity this week and we would rather pay that than relax it. The programme is administered by the DBT-HRD unit at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, and the call is on its announcements page. Expect this record next week.
Two American fellowships were dropped for being fellowships you cannot personally apply to. The two NIH ECHO awards, a dissertation grant and a Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellowship for work on the ECHO Cohort data, look like individual awards and are not: in both cases the eligible applicant is an organisation, the university or sponsoring institution submits, and the candidate is named as principal investigator on someone else’s application. Both also require the individual to be a United States citizen, non-citizen national or lawful permanent resident by the time of award, which we could confirm only by pulling the full announcement text from Grants.gov, because the NIH’s own grants site refuses every automated request. If you are at a United States institution and your supervisor is willing to submit, those calls close on 15 October and 2 December 2026.
How is this list verified?
Before this issue, every live record in the index was re-fetched from the funder’s own page. That run read 202 records, successfully loaded 184 pages, and closed 7 records whose dates had passed. No stored deadline changed anywhere in the index this week, which is a quieter result than last week’s, when Chile’s Fondecyt postdoctoral competition moved from 27 August to 8 September.
Twenty pages could not be fetched at all, and those twenty records were left exactly as they were. That is deliberate and it is the single most important rule in how this index is maintained. A page that returns 403 to an automated client, or serves a certificate our machine does not trust, or returns a body that is only JavaScript, has told us nothing about whether a student can still apply. Two Rhodes Scholarship records are a live example: they failed to load during this week’s check after loading fine last week, so we left them alone rather than closing them on the strength of a network error. Closing a live opportunity because a content delivery network said no is precisely the harm this index exists to prevent.
Every new entry is read twice, by two readers who never see each other’s work, and the two readings are compared field by field. Disagreement about the deadline or about which page a reader should go to drops the record. Disagreement about a softer field, such as a stipend figure, blanks that field and keeps the record, which is why several entries above say a funder prints no amount: an unpublished figure costs you nothing, a wrong one costs you trust. Five records were dropped this week by that comparison, and this issue names all five rather than quietly shipping twenty-one instead of twenty-six.
Every record carries the date it was last verified. Always open the official link before you apply. The funder’s page is the authority and this page is a signpost to it.
What should I do before the deadline?
Work backwards from the earliest binding stage, not from the date in the headline. Several entries in this index advertise one date and are actually gated by an earlier one. The Victoria University of Wellington scholarship closes on 15 September and stops giving out project access on 1 September. The UNESCO fellowship closes on 30 September and asks you to be with your National Commission two weeks before that. The Studienstiftung’s call is open for exactly fourteen days and needs your supervisor’s signature inside them. In each case the date that decides whether you can apply is not the date printed largest.
Read the eligibility line before the funding line. The most common way to lose an evening in this index is to read an amount, get interested, and discover a country list or an enrolment condition three screens later. This week that condition is a closed list of 83 nationalities on the UNESCO fellowship, a requirement to be enrolled at one particular Australian university on two of the summer programmes, twelve months of prior society membership on three Biochemical Society grants, and a requirement to carry out the work in Quebec on all three Fonds de recherche du Quebec competitions.
If the deadline is a walk-in, the only question is whether you can be in the room. Four Indian posts in this issue are decided at a desk in Faridabad at 9:00 am on a stated morning. Read the advert for the document list, because originals are checked on the spot, and note that THSTI asks candidates to deposit their phone at reception.
Undated does not mean unavailable. Seventy-nine of the 205 entries here carry no deadline, and two of this week’s new entries are among the easiest to act on today. The CRG undergraduate and master student fellowships in Barcelona pay 700 euros a month for up to four months plus a return flight of up to 1,000 euros from outside Europe, across ten projects that include computational biology, protein language models and structural variant analysis, and each project stays open until the right candidate is found. You apply to the named supervisor directly, not through a portal. The Wellcome Early-Career Awards accept applications year round. Neither will ever appear in a closing-soon list, which is exactly why they are worth a Saturday morning.
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Which life science funding deadlines close this week?
Eight close today, 31 August 2026: four Indian institute project posts at BRIC-inStem Bengaluru, BRIC-NCCS Pune, BRIC-NIPGR New Delhi and BRIC-THSTI Faridabad, the Amgen Scholars Australia Program at the University of Melbourne, the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust postgraduate scholarships in South Africa, and the Explorers Club Pathfinder and Rising Explorer grants at 6:00 pm US Eastern Time. Twelve more close on 1 September, including the CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship at USD 243,000 over three years, the BrightFocus Alzheimer’s Disease Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, both Heinrich Boell Stiftung scholarships for study in Germany, and the Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowships. Thirty-eight close by 15 September 2026 in total.
Are there any funded research opportunities I can still start applying for in September?
Yes, and the southern hemisphere is where they are. Five Australian and New Zealand summer research programmes have their 2027 dates printed now, while most northern-hemisphere schemes are between cycles. The Victoria University of Wellington Summer Research Scholarship pays a minimum tax-free NZD 8,000 for up to ten weeks and closes 15 September 2026. The Children’s Medical Research Institute summer scholarships in Sydney close 1 October and take undergraduates from first year upward. The University of Queensland 2027 Summer Research Program pays an AUD 3,000 grant for six weeks and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute Vacation Internship pays up to AUD 500 a week, both closing 11 October 2026. Four of the five require you to be enrolled at that university or in that country already.
Can a non-Canadian apply for a Fonds de recherche du Quebec scholarship?
Yes. The default route requires Canadian citizenship or permanent residence with a valid RAMQ card, and the rules then state that an applicant who meets neither condition is still eligible to apply. For the master’s competition (CAD 20,000 a year, closing 1 October 2026) and the doctoral competition (CAD 25,000 a year, closing 29 September 2026) you submit proof of admission to a programme at a Quebec university or a consent form from your research supervisor. For the postdoctoral competition (CAD 45,000 a year, closing 8 October 2026) it is a consent form plus a letter of acceptance from your supervisor. In every case you must carry out the work in Quebec, and for the master’s and doctoral awards you cannot use the award for a cotutelle outside Quebec. All three close at 16:00 EST and none charges a fee. You may apply to only one FRQ training award programme per year.
Which of these fund computational biology or bioinformatics work?
Several of this week’s new entries. The CRG International PhD Programme in Barcelona, closing 22 November 2026, covers genomics, computational biology and health genomics, bioinformatics and machine learning applied to biology, offers up to 20 fully funded four-year employment contracts, and pays accommodation and flights for candidates invited to interview. The CRG undergraduate and master student fellowships, which stay open until each project is filled, include projects on protein language models and structural variant analysis at 700 euros a month. The UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi fellowship has an artificial intelligence stream covering ecosystem monitoring and responsible AI use in scientific research. In India, the BRIC-THSTI Junior Data Scientist post at Rs 50,000 a month closes 1 September. All three Fonds de recherche du Quebec competitions cover natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.
Why do 79 of these entries have no deadline date?
Because the funder did not print one, and we will not invent it. Some are genuinely open ended: the Wellcome Early-Career Awards state there are no deadlines and accept applications at any time, and the CRG undergraduate and master fellowships say each project stays open until the right candidate is found. Others print a recurring day and month with no year at all, which is normal for learned societies and for annual institutional schemes, and a date with no year is a date we would have to guess. Two Indian posts were dropped from this issue for a related reason: their closing dates are printed all in digits, as 11/09/2026 and 04-09-2026, where both components are twelve or less and the day and month order cannot be settled. In every case we print the funder’s own wording and link the page that holds the operative date.
How often is this list updated, and how far can I trust it?
We publish a roundup every week and add newly verified opportunities in between. Before this issue every live record was re-fetched from its funder’s page: 202 records were checked, 184 pages loaded successfully, seven closed because their dates had passed, and no stored deadline changed anywhere in the index. Twenty pages could not be fetched and those records were left exactly as they were, because a page that fails to load tells us nothing about whether an opportunity is open. Every new entry is read twice by two readers who never see each other’s work; disagreement about the deadline or the application page drops the record, and five records were dropped that way this week. Every record carries the date it was last verified. Always open the official link before you apply.
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