Computational biology opportunities
Subscribe to updatesComputational biology competitions, grants, fellowships, calls for papers, conferences and workshops for undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and early-career researchers. Every entry links to the official announcement — use “Team up” to find collaborators for it.
- Official source · Arc Institute9 days left
Competition · Arc Institute 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge
Zero-shot prediction of CRISPRi perturbation responses across unseen cell contexts; $100,000 grand prize.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · Stanford Qiu Lab / NeurIPS 202636 days left
Competition · Virtual Embryo Challenge — NeurIPS 2026
Predict embryonic gene expression, spatial organization, temporal development and mutant perturbation responses. Award: $112,000 in prizes and awards.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH42 days left
Fellowship/position · NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32)
Mentored postdoctoral research training for early-career scientists in health-related fields, funded through the participating NIH institutes.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · NSF336 days left
Fellowship/position · NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
Two-year independent postdoctoral fellowships from NSF's Biological Sciences Directorate. The current solicitation (NSF 26-504) centers on research at the intersection of AI and biological sciences. Award: $110,000/year for 2 years.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · DREAM Challenges / Sage Bionetworks
Competition · DREAM Challenges
A long-running series of crowd-sourced computational challenges in biomedicine, run with open data and rigorous benchmarking.
- Community submitted · EMBO
Fellowship/position · EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships
Fellowships supporting postdoctoral research stays abroad in the life sciences, with funding for the fellow and family-related support.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · Human Frontier Science Program
Fellowship/position · HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships
International fellowships for postdocs who move to a new country and a new research direction in the life sciences.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · HHMI
Fellowship/position · HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
Postdoctoral fellowship and early-career support for exceptional life-science researchers aiming to establish independent labs.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · NSF ACCESS
Grant · NSF ACCESS Computing Allocations
Free allocations of national supercomputing, cloud and storage resources for U.S.-based research and education, with entry-level tiers that can be requested at any time.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · NVIDIA
Grant · NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
Compute grants (GPU time or hardware) for academic researchers working on AI and accelerated-computing projects.
Eligible for: Faculty / Postdoc
- Community submitted · Schmidt Science Fellows
Fellowship/position · Schmidt Science Fellows
Postdoctoral fellowship for recent PhDs to move into a new field, with a global community and interdisciplinary training.
Eligible for: Postdoc
- Community submitted · American Society of Human GeneticsEnded · 10/20/2026 – 10/24/2026 · Montréal, Québec, Canada
Conference · ASHG 2026 Annual Meeting
Annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, with scientific sessions, posters and trainee programming in Montréal.
- Community submitted · U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityClosed
Competition · Ready, Set...ID the Biothreat Challenge
AI-assisted algorithms to detect known, novel, and unknown biological threats in environmental metagenomic datasets. Award: $999,990 total cash prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry