The Department of Microbiology and Immunology maintains a dynamic research environment that provides excellent opportunities for postdoctoral training.

Interested applicants are encouraged to contact the departmental HR representative, Ms. Sunny Walton, to speak on training opportunities that exist in your field of study.

Office of Postdoctoral Education

The Office of Postdoctoral Education was created in the Spring of 1999 to reflect the School of Medicine's interest in the role of postdoctoral trainees in this research enterprise. The OPE provides support to postdocs, their mentors and administrative staff. It maintains an extensive web site. The OPE sponsors career development and professional skills workshops, as well as social events for postdocs. It provides information on funding awards and career opportunities.

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Cottrell Fellows Program

The School of Medicine at Emory has partnered with the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation to create this extraordinary opportunity for postdoctoral support and training. The Cottrell Fellows Program provides a highly competitive stipend and full benefits, a discretionary research allowance and professional development experiences that will prepare Cottrell Fellows to successfully compete for outstanding professional positions in biomedical research.

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Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching

The Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) program provides postdoctoral fellows with both research support and training in teaching methods that are useful to their career development. This fellowship program combines the faculties of one of the top national research universities and four of the top national minority servicing institutions in the Atlanta metropolitan area with 3.5 million people to increase the quantity and quality of post-doctoral fellows achieving careers in biological/biomedical sciences. The FIRST program provides interdisciplinary biomedical research training in the areas supported by NIGMS by a faculty with the expertise to provide the foundation critical for outstanding postdoctoral research training. Program benefits include creation of a cohesive core of post-doctoral fellows and alumni that interact in and out of the laboratory, a voice in the program's development and evaluation, as well as an increase in the overall representation of minority scientists at Emory.

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