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The OACD provides an annual series of professional development workshops for doctoral students and postdoctoral trainees. This series focuses upon a range of career development skills, career options, and key transitional steps to help you identify, prepare for, and succeed in landing the next step of your career.

The NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE) maintains a careers blog that offers guidance with career planning and the job search process.

The OACD provides an annual series of professional development workshops for doctoral students and postdoctoral trainees. This series focuses upon a range of career development topics critical to your professional success and this foundational content applies across all disciplines.

A series of research-specific workshops are scheduled annually to meet the career development needs of postdoctoral trainees through senior investigators across the health sciences.

InterSECT is an online platform that allows PhD-level scientists and humanists, regardless of professional stage, to explore future career options. By completing job simulations, you can consider which careers are of interest to you and utilize provided resources to explore future courses of action by following up with professionals in the career field.

Now that GrantsNet has retired, the Science Magazine staff has compiled a list of other places you can search for information on funding programs. Science Magazine offers links to search for funding opportunities, valuable insights into the process for finding and securing funding, and a series of articles on how to write a successful grant application.

NSF

The National Science Foundation(NSF) funds research and education in most fields of science and engineering. It does this through grants, and cooperative agreements to more than 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, businesses, informal science organizations and other research organizations throughout the United States. The Foundation accounts for about one-fourth of federal support to academic institutions for basic research.

NIH

NIH offers funding for many types of grants, contracts, and even programs that help repay loans for researchers. Learn about these programs, as well as about NIH's budget process, grant funding strategies, and policies, and more.

The Office of Research, Health Sciences, maintains a list of foundations by disease type, a list of foundations that are more broadly focused, and a list of foundations that focus on health care delivery and patient well-being.

The CDMRP fills research gaps by funding high impact, high risk and high gain projects that other agencies may not venture to fund. While individual programs are unique in their focus, all of the programs managed by the CDMRP share the common goal of advancing paradigm shifting research, solutions that will lead to cures or improvements in patient care, or breakthrough technologies and resources for clinical benefit. The CDMRP strives to transform healthcare for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful research.