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 Predoctoral Fellowship (F31)
Up to five years (typically two to three) of mentored dissertation-research support for PhD students in health-related research fields, awarded through the participating NIH institutes.
Eligible for: PhD student
- Community submitted · U.S. Department of Energy / Krell Institute72 days left
Fellowship/position · DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship — 2027-2028
Four-year fellowship for early-stage PhD students using HPC to solve complex science and engineering problems. Award: $45,000 annual stipend plus full tuition and fees; renewable up to 4 years.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- 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 · Google Research
Fellowship/position · Google PhD Fellowship
Fellowships for PhD students doing exceptional research in computer science and related fields, with a Google research mentor.
Eligible for: PhD student
- Community submitted · iGEM Foundation
Competition · iGEM Competition
International synthetic-biology competition where student teams design, build and present engineered biological systems.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- 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