Postdoctoral Fellowships

Open Call - November 2025

Principal investigators at Karolinska Institutet are hereby invited to submit a project within basic, translational, clinical, and/or epidemiological research with an emphasis on diabetes and its comorbidities (e.g. cardiovascular and liver disease). Projects should have clear relevance for diabetic disease. Principal investigators should document their track record in diabetes related research.

This call has two different application categories:

1. Project applied by a PI/supervisor(s) within the areas given above. Up to four postdoctoral grants will be awarded in this category.

2.Collaborative project of translational nature within the areas given above by two PIs/supervisors. The expertise of one of the applicants should be clinical research and the applicant should combine this with a position in health care working actively in the clinic. The co-PI should have a clear complementary expertise, e.g. in basic, laboratory science. Translational research is here broadly defined as translating basic scientific knowledge and discoveries to improve human health and within the areas given above. Up to two postdoctoral grants will be awarded in this category.

Each fellow will receive a salary together with consumables and travel funding. The duration of the fellowships is for 2 years with a grant sum of 900 KSEK/year. Apart from training exceptional early career scientists, we hope that this programme will further help consolidate the community of diabetes researchers at KI. The fellowship programme is part of the Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes at Karolinska Institutet (SRP Diabetes), and supported PIs and fellows will become part of this dynamic research environment.

Below you can find further information, as well as the templates for CV and application. Deadline: 20 January 2026

Please use the following link to apply: SRP Diabetes Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme – Fill out form

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