Career Launchpad

Find resources and opportunities for non-malignant urology researchers. Below you will find information on funding opportunities, predoctoral and postdoctoral training programs, available postdoctoral positions, K12 career development programs, and other employment opportunities as well as collaborative research groups focusing on specific topics within non-malignant urology. For more information on specific opportunities, contact the listed program officials or contacts.

If you have a posting or announcement for the Career Launchpad, send your request to the CAIRIBU Interactions Core at cairibu@urology.wisc.edu.

Undergraduate and Graduate Training Programs

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Pre and Postdoctoral Training Programs

  • University of Virginia – IGNITE KUH

    A partnership between four major research training centers in the Commonwealth of Virginia offering pre- and postdoctoral training to develop the next generation of diverse kidney, urology, and hematology researchers.

  • Chicago KUH FORWARD (TL1DK132769)

    Chicago KUH FORWARD (TL1DK132769) research training program is a cross-disciplinary, mentored research experience that will yield scientific products, leading trainees to accumulate publications, submit individual grant applications and present their work at national scientific meetings.

  • Mayo Clinic Kidney Disease Research Training Program (T32 DK07013)

    The Kidney Disease Research Training Program at Mayo Clinic prepares biomedical and clinical scientists for independent investigative careers in academic nephrology and basic renal sciences. Trainees acquire an in-depth education in renal physiology, pathophysiology, or both, and skills in the appropriate basic or applied sciences.

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Other Training Programs

  • Public Health Laboratory Fellowships

    1-2 year full-time fellowships for bachelor's or graduate degree holders supporting a wide spectrum of program areas in local, state and territorial government laboratories focused on protecting the public’s health, including laboratories performing human, environmental, animal and food testing to monitor for and detect health threats. Relevant areas of interest include: Bioinformatics and Molecular Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Informatics. [Rolling deadline.]

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Post Doctoral Positions

  • NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

    Accepting proposals from recent doctoral degree recipients focused on the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Biological Sciences to Strengthen and Safeguard Biotechnology Innovations. Candidates with AI and/or biology experience will develop deep expertise in both areas. Fellows expected to become field leaders who use AI capabilities to extrapolate from biological data to technological advances. Proposers are encouraged to consider how to leverage the nation's diversity of existing biological data, and biological infrastructure to accelerate discovery, innovation and biotechnology for the public good. [Posted 2/5/2026. Deadlines: 9/29/2026, 4th Tuesday in Sept, annually thereafter.]

  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Urothelial and Cancer Biology

    Postdoctoral Fellow in Urothelial and Cancer Biology at Columbia University in Dr. Cathy Mendelsohn's lab, in the Department of Urology & Genetics/Development. Seeking a person to work on a new mouse model of bladder cancer. The research involves multiomics and whole exome sequencing of tumors from mice as well as tissue analysis and some experience using computational skills.

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K12 Positions

Other Employment Opportunities

  • Lab manager position at Columbia University

    Looking for a person to fill lab manager position at the laboratory of Dr. Cathy Mendelsohn at Columbia University. Research and technical work: Perform experiments using mouse models and maintaining a small mouse colony, animal …