I?m a Canadian citizen looking at completing my PhD from MIT in the
summer of 2006.  I hope to hold a Postdoctoral position either in
California (Berkeley, Caltech) or Boston (MIT, Harvard) starting in
the fall 2006.  I need a list of fellowships for which I am eligible. 
Due to the fact that I did my PhD in an American institution I believe
that I am ineligible for numerous Canadian awards (Fulbright, NSERC)
also I am not French-Canadian so I am not eligible for the Quebec
version of NSERC.  My work deals with complex organic synthesis and is
usually associated with the pharmaceutical industry.  Most of my
choices for post-doctorial work are similar and thus I am (for the
most part) not eligible for defense sponsored fellowships.  I am only
interested in fellowships providing full (>= $25000/year) for at least
one year, preferably 2-3.  Also due to insufficient time to prepare,
any fellowships that have a deadline earlier than Nov 2004, for
someone graduating in summer 2006, are not going to help me.

Thank you very much.

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Request for Question Clarification by mathtalk-ga on 17 Oct 2004 14:08 PDT

Hi, moslin-ga:

Just to clarify, is your PhD in organic chemistry?  Or some other field?

regards, mathtalk-ga

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Clarification of Question by moslin-ga on 18 Oct 2004 04:36 PDT

My PhD is in organic chemistry.

Thanks
Ryan Moslin

You may want to check out NIH and/or NSF, they offer lots of
fellowships for post-docs as well as grants.

Is anyone working on my question?  Have people looked into and found nothing?

My suggestion is

1) Ask your PhD supervisor for suggestions about whose lab you could work in;
2) Write directly to those labs asking if they have positions
available and telling them about your research interest(s);

They will contact your supervisor and ask about you.

This is how I got my first Post-Doc.  It only took two short letters.

An alternative might be to look at the NSF website and see who has
grant money.  Conferences are also a way of networking for jobs: some
people get offered jobs after presenting a paper.

Jobs are offered to people who have published!  

I missed out on one job because I didn't ask.  I went to a lab to
discuss my draft of a paper with the one person whom I felt could help
me.  Very generously, he gave me a couple of hours of his time. I
later found out he would have offered me a job if I had only asked!

So I am saying that the chief researchers in your field will have
grants and are looking for post-docs with the requisite talents.