The list

• India · boardIndiaBioscience jobsThe most useful single board for life-science posts in India: PhD, postdoc, staff, and the occasional faculty call.
• India · funderDepartment of BiotechnologyFellowships, project posts, and institute news from DBT. Specific calls are announced here and then repeated on institute sites.
• India · funderCSIRThe Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, parent of a network of laboratories.
• India · fellowshipCSIR HRDGHuman Resource Development Group: fellowships and the rules that govern them.
• India · examNational Testing AgencyAnnouncements for national exams, including the CSIR-UGC NET when NTA is conducting it. The year’s exact URL changes; start here.
• India · funderIndian Council of Medical ResearchBiomedical research careers and calls, separate from the university track.
• India · funderDepartment of Science and TechnologyDST schemes and the institutes that sit near them.
• India · funderAnusandhan National Research FoundationThe national research-funding body that has taken on the landscape previously associated with SERB.
• India · studentsINSPIREDST’s INSPIRE schemes for students and young researchers. The application portal named by DST is online-inspire.gov.in. Read the current call, not a blog summary.
• India · fellowshipDBT / Wellcome India AllianceCompetitive fellowships that shape independent careers. Not an entry-level board, and worth knowing early so the path is not a surprise.
• India · agriICARIndian Council of Agricultural Research. Plant breeding, animal science, fisheries, and the institutes beneath.
• India · agriASRBAgricultural Scientists Recruitment Board. A formal door into ICAR scientific posts.
• India · univUniversity Grants CommissionNorms and schemes for university teaching and research posts.
• India · labNCBS BengaluruNational Centre for Biological Sciences. Admissions, JGEEBILS information, and jobs live on this site.
• India · labTIFRTata Institute of Fundamental Research. Biology admissions are part of a wider institute.
• India · labTIFR HyderabadBiology and related research in Hyderabad, with its own announcements.
• India · labCCMB HyderabadCentre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, a CSIR laboratory.
• India · labCDFD HyderabadCentre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.
• India · labIGIB DelhiCSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.
• India · labNII DelhiNational Institute of Immunology.
• India · labNCCS PuneNational Centre for Cell Science.
• India · labinStem BengaluruInstitute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine.
• India · labRCB FaridabadRegional Centre for Biotechnology.
• India · univIndian Institute of ScienceIISc Bengaluru: research admissions and employment, not only a famous name.
• India · univIISER PuneOne IISER, as a concrete door. Each IISER recruits on its own site; this is the pattern, not the only campus.
• India · univNISER BhubaneswarNational Institute of Science Education and Research.
• India · industryBIRACBiotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council. A window onto industry-facing funding rather than a university post.
• World · boardNature CareersInternational academic and industry posts. Useful for seeing how a job is described outside India.
• World · boardScience CareersThe AAAS careers board and its advice articles. Separate the advertisement from the essay.
• World · labEMBL jobsEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, across several sites.
• World · fellowshipEMBOFellowships and courses. A postdoc path that many Indian applicants eventually meet.
• World · funderWellcomeA major funder. The page is about schemes, which is how jobs come into existence.
• World · trainingNIH trainingHow biomedical training is structured at the US National Institutes of Health.
• World · funderHHMIHoward Hughes Medical Institute. More a way of funding investigators than a vacancy list, and worth understanding.
• World · labCold Spring Harbor LaboratoryCourses as well as research posts. The courses have trained a disproportionate number of molecular biologists.
• World · mobilityEURAXESSEuropean research positions and the practicalities of moving.
• World · studentsNSF GRFPUS National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. For a specific citizenship and career stage. Read the eligibility before the dream.
• World · boardjobs.ac.ukUK academic posts, including technical and teaching contracts that a Nature search might miss.
• World · studyFindAPhDA commercial board of PhD projects, mostly UK and Europe. Verify every project on the university’s own page before you write to anyone.

Checked as institutional homepages on 10 October 2026. A homepage can be reorganised without notice. If a door has moved, search the institution’s name rather than an old path. The annotated shortlist is the selected job links.