Current Opportunities at Vanderbilt University in United States

Last Updated on November 1, 2026 by admin

Explore current opportunities at Vanderbilt University in United States to enhance your career and academic journey today.

Biological Sciences	The laboratories of Dr. Carl Johnson and Dr. Alexandre Tiriac are seeking a motivated candidate for a postdoctoral research position supported by a newly funded NIH R01	View Details
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center TRIAD	The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC)’s TRIAD and the Division of Developmental Medicine in VUMC’s Department of Pediatrics are accepting applications for a clinical psychology postdoctoral fellowship in the area of autism and developmental disabilities. This is a one-year fellowship intended for postdoctoral psychologists.	View Details
Physics & Astronomy	Vanderbilt University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in gravitational-wave astronomy and multi-messenger astrophysics. The successful candidate will join the Department of Physics & Astronomy as a VIPER (Vanderbilt Initiative in Probes of Extreme Relativity) Postdoctoral Fellow.	View Details
Vanderbilt Eye Institute; Neurology; Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology	Translational human immunobiology postdoctoral research opportunity! We are looking for a thoughtful, diligent experimentalist to develop established projects within the lab.	View Details
Law School	The Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator (VPA) seeks applications for a fellow in the field of networks, platforms, and utilities (NPUs). The Project on NPUs seeks to revitalize the study of the law and political economy of NPU industries; and facilitates research and education on NPU law and policy.	View Details
Pediatrics; Cell & Developmental Biology; Biomedical Engineering	Postdoctoral position in vascular biology and therapeutics	View Details
Biological Sciences	Postdoctoral position in social environments, genomics, and aging at Vanderbilt University	View Details
Biological Sciences	Postdoctoral position in primate functional genomics at Vanderbilt University	View Details
School of Nursing	Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) is pleased to announce an opening for one Postdoctoral Fellowship beginning July 2027 for an emerging scholar whose research aligns with one of VUSN’s signature areas.	View Details
Psychology	Postdoctoral Fellow in Systems Neuroscience — Next-Generation High-Density Neurophysiology and Predictive Processing	View Details

Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program; A&S Dean’s Office	We seek recent PhDs in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences who bring interdisciplinary approaches to crucial issues in contemporary life. While in the program, CHPP fellows pursue research projects, design and teach undergraduate courses, craft professional skills, and receive active faculty mentoring.	View Details
Medicine: Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine	The Stier Lab seeks a postdoctoral fellow to uncover context-specific mechanisms of human immune resilience under physiologic and metabolic stress, using sepsis and critical illness as a window into fundamental immunobiology with translational potential.	View Details
Medicine	Our research program integrates large-scale microbiome, genomic, and multi-omic data to define host-microbe interactions and uncover the biological mechanisms underlying health and disease.	View Details
Plastic Surgery	The Department of Plastic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a highly motivated Research PhD to join a collaborative and innovative research program focused on advancing discovery and impact in plastic and reconstructive surgery.	View Details
Medicine	Join a research team with multiple NIH-funded R01 grants to analyze large-scale genomic, multi-omics, and EHR-linked data. The position focuses on disease gene discovery, AI-driven target identification, drug repurposing, and translational precision medicine research.	View Details
School of Nursing	Fellow conducting mentored research in midlife women’s health, with a focus on menopause, depressive symptoms, physical activity, and technology-based symptom management. Responsibilities include overseeing research activities, developing protocols, grant writing, data collection and analysis, publishing, presentations.	View Details
School of Nursing	Two Postdoctoral Fellows conducting mentored oncology nursing research focused on cancer survivorship, breast cancer, pain management, and technology-based symptom management, with opportunities for grant writing, data analysis, publications, and presentations.	View Details
Neurology	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sleep, Neuroimaging, and Frontotemporal Dementia Department: Neurology, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Position type: Full-time postdoctoral appointment, 100% grant funded for up to five years, contingent on continued award funding	View Details
Medicine: Infectious Disease	The Watson Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a motivated postdoctoral fellow to investigate how mitochondrial homeostasis shapes macrophage immune responses and the outcome of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.	View Details
Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology	The Patrick lab in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a highly motivated and creative Postdoctoral Scholar to investigate the molecular mechanisms that regulate innate immune responses during infection.	View Details

Rheumatology & Immunology	Postdoctoral fellowship position in the Ormseth Lab at Vanderbilt Health in the Division of Rheumatology & Immunology. Studying how human and microbial microRNAs and other small RNAs in the circulation may contribute to the development of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.	View Details
Mechanical Engineering	The Dong Laboratory is looking to hire a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will contribute to the development and preclinical translation of next-generation implantable medical devices and medical robotic systems for minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment.	View Details
Chemistry	The Johnston Laboratory, Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences at Vanderbilt University, is seeking applications from accomplished chemists for a position as a Postdoctoral Associate in synthetic organic chemistry.	View Details
Pediatric Gastroenterology	Postdoctoral Fellow in Biophotonics and Multi-Omics Research in Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis	View Details
Computer Science OR Leadership, Policy, and Organizations	The Learning, AI & Pathway Systems (LAPS) Lab at Vanderbilt is recruiting 1-2 Postdoctoral Scholars. The LAPS Lab develops computational approaches for understanding learning, educational systems, and AI-supported instruction, with a focus on effort, agency, tutoring, and student pathways across K-12 and higher education.	View Details
Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology	RNA Processing and Modification in Viral Infection and Innate Immunity	View Details
Anthropology	Seeking highly motivated person for post-doc position in Bioarchaeology & Stable Isotope Research Lab; Dept of Anthropology. Research on ancient human and animal diets and migration in the ancient Americas. Sample prep, collaborating w/ students, data analysis/visualization, writing/co-authoring manuscripts. Full time.	View Details
Biological Sciences	Postdoctoral Position available September 1, 2026, in the Johnson Laboratory at Vanderbilt University	View Details
Biomedical Engineering	Postdoctoral Researcher – Gonzales Lab	View Details
Biomedical Informatics	The Precision Nutrition Lab at VUMC is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to develop innovative AI and machine learning approaches for integrating multi-omics and clinical data to advance computational biomedical research, enable deep phenotyping, and support translational precision health.	View Details
Neurology	The laboratory of Dr. Manus Donahue in the Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. The candidate will play a central role in the development and implementation of novel MRI acquisition and analysis techniques	View Details
Dermatology	The Ward Lab seeks an independent postdoctoral fellow to develop innovative in vivo and in vitro models of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), integrating mouse genetics, human keratinocyte systems, and translational patient data to study inflammatory skin disease mechanisms.	View Details
Neurology	Postdoctoral Computational Biologist to analyze and integrate multi-omics data to uncover ALS disease mechanisms, biomarkers, and therapeutic targets. Role involves developing pipelines, applying AI/statistical models, and collaborating in a translational, multidisciplinary research environment.	View Details
Medicine: Genetic Medicine	The Bick Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a highly motivated and independent postdoctoral fellow to join our team working on the detection and interpretation of acquired DNA mutations as well as interrogation of their downstream biomedical consequences. Special emphasis is paid to translational efforts.	View Details
Special Education; Hearing & Speech Sciences	Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University supporting interdisciplinary research in education, implementation science, and translational research. Fellows will engage in research projects, grant writing, publications, mentoring, and community-based projects.	View Details
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences	This is a collaborative position working on a federally funded project to test the efficacy of optimized promising therapeutics in our models of indirect traumatic optic neuropathy (ITON).	View Details
Biochemistry & Pharmacology	The Blind Lab is looking for an outstanding recent PhD looking to continue their training in structural biology, specifically focusing on crystallographic and/or other structural approaches to studying how small molecule drugs and lipids regulate nuclear receptors.	View Details
Chemistry	The Plate lab is seeking a talented and motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to join our team. We are a multidisciplinary research group using chemical biology, biochemistry, cell biology and proteomics approaches to understand the coordination of protein interactions.	View Details
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition	This request is for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work in Dr. Choksi’s laboratory. Dr. Choksi’s research program is basic/translational and focuses on the effect of oxidative stress on cell-cell communication. This position will focus on independently advancing research projects, analyzing data, and mentoring	View Details
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics	Postdoctoral researcher in computational biology and deep learning	View Details
Medicine	Postdoc position studying intestinal injury, IBD, and colorectal cancer using murine models and human organoids. Lead experiments, publish, present, mentor, and aid grants. Requires PhD, strong molecular biology and mouse disease modeling; organoid/CRC expertise preferred.	View Details
Biochemistry, Chemistry, & the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology	The Mitchell Laboratory is recruiting postdoctoral fellows to lead high-impact projects at the interface of chemical and synthetic biology. Our research aims to discover and engineer macrocyclic peptides as chemical probes and therapeutic leads.	View Details
Pharmacology	Postdoctoral position, Cigliola Laboratory, Vanderbilt University	View Details
Vanderbilt University Institute of National Security	Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Cybersecurity. This position is in the Wicked Problems Laboratory in the Vanderbilt University Institute of National Security.	View Details
Vanderbilt University Institute of National Security	Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Artificial Intelligence. This position is in the Wicked Problems Laboratory in the Vanderbilt University Institute of National Security	View Details
Physics & Astronomy	Postdoctoral fellowship in gravitational physics at Vanderbilt University	View Details