Genomics opportunities
Subscribe to updatesGenomics 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.
- Community submitted · NIH / NCI17 days left
Competition · Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Data Innovation Challenge
Innovative uses of Childhood Cancer Data Initiative resources to advance biological insights and technology. Award: Up to $17,000,000 across phases.
Eligible for: 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 · 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 · NIH / NCATS65 days left
Competition · Oligonucleotide Toxicity (OligoTox) Open Data Challenge — Phase 2
Generate public human-cell data for predicting oligonucleotide toxicity from sequence and chemical modification. Award: $500,000 total across phases.
Eligible for: Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH / NLM96 days left
Competition · SPARK dbGaP Challenge
AI-powered genomic/phenotypic study discovery, including semantic variable normalization and conversational cohort-feasibility analysis. Award: $250,000 total prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- 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 · Amazon Web Services
Grant · AWS Cloud Credit for Research
Cloud computing credits for researchers and institutions who need compute and storage for data-intensive projects.
Eligible for: PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty
- 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 · 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 · HHMIClosed
Fellowship/position · 2027 HHMI Gilliam Fellows Program
PhD fellowship supporting second- and third-year biological/biomedical science students with their faculty thesis advisors. Award: $65,000/year for up to 3 years.
Eligible for: PhD student
- 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.