Postdoctoral Affairs Grants and Fellowships

Drexel University Fellowships Office

The Drexel Fellowships Office encourages students to apply for nationally-competitive awards and works directly and intensively with those who are applying for our Core awards, especially those that require nomination or campus interview.

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PIVOT – FUNDING AND COLLABORATION DISCOVERY TOOL

Drexel postdocs have licensed access to Pivot, a tool designed for discovering and sharing research funding opportunities. Pivot connects researchers to financial support by leveraging the most comprehensive global source of sponsored funding opportunities and provides scholarly profiles to match researchers with financial partners and collaborators. It covers a wide variety of funding types, from research grants to travel awards and fellowships, offered by federal, state and private organizations and nonprofits, all in one place. With Pivot, researchers can create and save searches and receive funding alerts, so they don’t miss an opportunity. Pivot lists opportunities that are suitable for domestic and international postdocs.

To access Pivot you need to establish an account. Start at pivot.proquest.com/register and sign up using your Drexel email. You’ll receive an email with a validation link to confirm your registration to Pivot. To learn more about how to use Pivot visit libguides.library.drexel.edu/funding.

Internal Opportunity Highlight

The Cotswold Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship is intended to foster the career development of Drexel University postdoctoral researchers in formal, physical, life, and applied sciences pursuing a career in academic research and seeking long-term employment at an US educational and/or research institution.

The fellowship is intended to subsidize and support postdoctoral training by providing $60,000 for one year, which can be utilized for salary, fringe and professional development, or any combination of the three.

Applications for this fellowship are accepted from June 15, 2024 until September 30, 2024!

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Contact Hwyda A. Arafat, MD, PhD, MSc. MEdL at opa@drexel.edu with any questions.

2024 Winners

Dr. Opeyemi Babajide (Mentor: Alex Ezeh, PhD)
Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
Project: "The Impact of The Social Determinants of Health on Disparities in Maternal Health for African Immigrant Women in Philadelphia”

Dr. Biplab Sarkar (Mentor: Christopher B. Rodell, PhD)
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Project: "Localized regulation of the innate immune response in the context of ischemic heart failure”

2023 Winners

Dr. Chetan Sharma (Mentor: Jonathan Deutsch, PhD)
Food and Hospitality Management, College of Nursing and Health Professions
Project: "Aroma as a capacity to mellow the feeling of disgust”

Dr.  Ruocun (John) Wang (Mentor: Yury Gogotsi, PhD, DSc, Drhc)
Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Project: "Investigating Simultaneous Hydrogen Production and Storage in Mxenes”

2022 Winners

Emanuela Piermarini, PhD (Mentor: Peter Baas, PhD)
Neurobiology and Anatomy
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
Project: "Gene therapy approach for SPG4-based Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia"

Hua Zhang, PhD (Mentor: Karen Miu, PhD)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Project: "High Efficiency Medium Voltage Power Conversion Technology Leveraging the Next Generation Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Grid Integration"

Stephanie Matt, PhD (Mentor: Peter Gaskill, PhD)
Pharmacology and Physiology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
Project: "Epigenetic regulation of dopamine induced by substance abuse and HIV-associated neuroinflammation"

Josiah Kephart, PhD, MPH (Mentor: Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH)
Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Project: "The impacts of climate-related extreme flood events on health and health disparities in Latin American cities"