{"id":16004,"date":"2021-10-25T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/?p=16004"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:44:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:44:51","slug":"innovative-postdoctoral-entrepreneurial-research-fellowship-iperf-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2021\/10\/25\/innovative-postdoctoral-entrepreneurial-research-fellowship-iperf-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship (IPERF) program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">We still have open positions and are looking to fill up to 14 postdoctoral awards through end of February 2022 within the Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship (IPERF) program at high-tech startups distributed throughout the United States. IPERF addresses a national need to accelerate small business innovation in support of federal government research by providing start-ups with doctoral level expertise in STEM while training the postdocs in high-tech entrepreneurship. Over 400 host companies are NSF approved, SBIR Phase II start-ups. IPERF&#8217;s focus is on candidates who are early-stage postdoctoral scholars. Women, underrepresented minorities in the sciences &amp; engineering, or veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces are strongly encouraged to apply.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Fellows serve a one-year research appointment within a small business research enterprise funded by NSF. The IPERF Program offers a competitive package which includes a $78,000\/year, health care insurance, $3,600 relocation allowance, and up to $2,000 professional development training allowance. For more information, please see our website at <a href=\"https:\/\/iperf.asee.org\">https:\/\/iperf.asee.org<\/a>\u00a0 or check our short video <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/511482798\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/511482798<\/a>\u00a0 Additional prerequisites: PhD in a STEM discipline. Fellow must be a US citizen or US Permanent Resident.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We still have open positions and are looking to fill up to 14 postdoctoral awards through end of February 2022 within the Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship (IPERF) program at high-tech startups distributed throughout the United States. IPERF addresses a national need to accelerate small business innovation in support of federal government research by providing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[33,14],"class_list":["post-16004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-career-options-entrepreneurship","tag-unique-postdoc-opportunity"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Announcement2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16005,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004\/revisions\/16005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}