C H O R I | Education & Training

Enriching Scientific Inquiry
Postdoctoral Training at CHORI

Although CHORI is not a university, the institution still maintains an unfailing commitment to the promise of education. As part of that commitment, CHORI offers unique training opportunities for postdoctoral fellows interested in exploring biomedical research with premier investigators in a high-caliber research institute of national and global renown:

Individual principal investigators (PI’s) at CHORI have funding for postdoctoral fellowships on a continuing basis, and offer prospective fellows the unparalleled opportunity to train in any one of CHORI’s six nationally recognized centers of research.
Recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as an educational institute for postdoctoral fellows, CHORI also has access to funding to help postdoctoral students evolve as independent scientists. The NIH funding allows fellows and the principal investigator (PI) with whom they work a degree of flexibility in the subject of study, irrespective of that PI’s own research goals.
Through CHORI’s collaboration with Children’s Hospital Oakland (CHO), CHORI also offers the opportunity for pediatric fellows to explore biomedical research. Within this program, fellows who have clinical patients also work at the bench labs of nationally renowned PI’s to develop their basic research skills.
Finally, specific training programs for postdoctoral fellows are offered in molecular and cellular biology through an NIH-funded, T32 program that provides the opportunity to explore research in hematology, immunology, genetics, transfusion medicine, hematopoietic stem cell biology and transplantation.

Regardless of the particular program through which postdoctoral fellows are supported at CHORI, they all have the opportunity to participate in the Staff and Clinical Scientist & Postdoctoral Fellow Association at CHORI (SPAC), an organization which unites all junior doctorate-level scientists.

Dedicated to supporting all aspects of career development, SPAC is designed to promote interaction between scientists from different laboratories and to facilitate communication with the Scientific Advisory Committee and CHORI administration. Please refer to CHORI’s Career page for more information on CHORI’s unique postdoctoral fellowship opportunities.