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- Community submitted · Activate
Grant · Activate Fellowship
Fellowship for scientists and engineers who want to commercialize their research, with funding, lab access and entrepreneurial support.
Eligible for: PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher
- 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 · Entrepreneur First
Grant · Entrepreneur First (co-founder matching)
Program for talented individuals to find co-founders and build a company from scratch, with funding and structured support.
Eligible for: Independent researcher / Industry / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · Gates Foundation
Grant · Gates Foundation Grand Challenges
Funding calls for innovative solutions to global health and development problems, including agriculture and livestock-related topics.
Eligible for: Faculty / Postdoc / Independent researcher / Industry
- 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 · European Commission
Fellowship/position · Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships
EU-funded fellowships for experienced researchers to work in Europe or abroad, open to all fields and nationalities.
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 · National Science Foundation
Grant · NSF I-Corps National Teams
Commercialization training and customer discovery for research technologies; eligible teams can receive up to $50,000. Award: Up to $50,000.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NSF
Grant · NSF Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
Supports research on plant genomes and the genome-to-phenome connection, including tools, data and training that advance plant biology and crop improvement.
Eligible for: Faculty / Postdoc
- 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
- Official source · Kaggle
Competition · Predicting Soil Grain Size Distributions from Images
Predict cumulative soil grain-size distributions from photographs of soil surfaces.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- 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 · Kaggle / RSNAClosed
Competition · RSNA Knee Abnormality Detection
Multimodal ML for twelve knee MRI abnormalities using MRI studies and multilingual radiology reports. Award: $77,000 total prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- 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 · NIH / HHSClosed
Competition · TOPx HHS Tech Sprint for AI and Invisible Illness
Use U.S. open data and AI to build real-world tools for urgent health challenges involving invisible illness. Award: Up to $2,000,000 total cash prizes.
Eligible for: Independent researcher / Industry / Postdoc / Faculty
- 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
- Community submitted · Kaggle / AI4S Open InnovationClosed
Competition · AI4S Open Innovation: AI for Life Science
AI applications in life science, especially organ-on-a-chip, microscopy, drug response and research workflows. Award: $22,200.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry