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Postdoc jobs at Medical University of South Carolina: newly funded NIH labs that may be hiring
MUSC labs with a new NIH R01 or an R00 start, across every NIH institute. A PI who just landed a new grant often has new positions to fill, so if you want a postdoc at MUSC, these are the labs worth writing to first.
NIH award notices from August 7, 2026 to November 5, 2026 · Updated November 5, 2026
Newly funded labs at a glance
The 14 MUSC labs, newest first
How to use postdoc job leads…and 2 more newly funded MUSC labs in the last 90 days.
When MUSC labs got their new awards
By month
| August 2026 | 6 |
| September 2026 | 8 |
Which NIH institutes fund MUSC research
In fiscal year 2026, Medical University of South Carolina received $139.6M in NIH awards. These institutes administered the most of it, which tells you which kinds of labs are most common there.
| NIH institute | FY2026 funding | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) · newly funded cancer research labs | $26.1M | 45 |
| National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) · newly funded addiction and substance use labs | $21.7M | 37 |
| National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) · newly funded neuroscience labs | $15.1M | 17 |
| National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) · newly funded cell and molecular biology labs | $11.7M | 12 |
| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) · newly funded addiction and substance use labs | $9.7M | 27 |
| National Institute on Aging (NIA) · newly funded aging and Alzheimer’s labs | $8.4M | 14 |
Full funding history, rankings, and largest awards: Medical University of South Carolina NIH funding.
How to approach a newly funded lab at MUSC
- Read the funded project. The abstract and specific aims on the RePORTER record tell you what the new money pays for, which is the work a new postdoc would do.
- Match one skill to one aim. In a short email, name the aim you could help with and the technique or result from your own work that fits it.
- Write early. A lab that just received a notice may not have posted a position yet. An R00 start means a brand-new lab, often with no postdocs at all.
More detail in how postdocs find funded PIs.
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- Which Medical University of South Carolina labs count as newly funded?
- Labs at Medical University of South Carolina whose NIH award notice in the last 90 days was a new (Type 1) R01, or an R00 award, the independent phase of the K99/R00 that starts when a former postdoc opens their own lab. Competing renewals, non-competing continuations, and later R00 years are left out. Awards are matched to Medical University of South Carolina by the NIH recipient organization code, so affiliated hospitals and institutes that receive NIH awards under their own name have their own pages.
- Are these MUSC labs hiring postdocs?
- Not necessarily. A new award is a signal that a lab has new money and new work to staff, not a job posting. Many positions are filled before they are ever advertised, so a short, specific email to the PI soon after an award is the earliest way to ask.
- Where does the data come from?
- NIH RePORTER, the public NIH database of funded projects. Counts on this page refresh from RePORTER award notices about twice a day; each lab links to its official RePORTER record.
- Why are the labs blurred?
- The counts are free. The PI, department, and project for each lab are part of the Postdoc job leads plan ($59/year or $9.99/month), which also emails you new matching R01 and R00 awards daily or weekly.
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