Postdoctoral Funding
UCSF is home to numerous postdoctoral trainees, many of whom are engaged in clinical and translational research.
UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP)
Under-Represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards These awards aim to encourage fellows and junior faculty from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to remain in academia.
NIH Funding
NIH Funded T32 Fellowships. There are over 50 fellowship training programs at UCSF supported by the NIH T32 mechanism (see T32 Table). In addition there are many other postdoctoral fellowship programs in various departments funded by other mechanisms.
NIH New Investigators Program. The new Pathway to Independence Award program will provide a unique opportunity for highly promising postdoctoral scientists to obtain two forms of support from a single NIH award. The support is interconnected and combines an initial mentored research phase (K99) followed by the scientist's first independent research support (R00). This funding opportunity is available to non-U.S. citizens as well as U.S. citizens. (See K99 Table for a list of UCSF awardees.)
NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. The NIH allows Principal Investigators holding specific types of NIH research grants to apply for funds for administrative supplements to improve the diversity of the research workforce by supporting and recruiting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented. (See Diversity Supplement Table of UCSF awardees.)
Other Clinical and Translational Research Fellowships
The Women's Health Clinical Research Center Fellowship is funded by the Mount Zion Health Fund and trains young physicians in clinical research methods in women's health. Fellows are selected based on research promise, demonstrated interest in women's health issues and excellence in clinical care and teaching. The fellowship is a two-year training program that combines didactic training with consistent mentoring and research collaboration.
UCSF DGIM General Internal Medicine Clinical Research Fellowship. The Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco offers a two-to-three year General Internal Medicine Fellowship designed to train physicians for academic medicine careers in clinical and health services research, with an emphasis on health disparities and priority populations. The NRSA- and HRSA-funded fellowship program is run jointly by faculty from San Francisco General Hospital, Parnassus-Mt Zion, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center.
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies Fellowship Program. This program trains individuals with diverse life experiences and professional backgrounds to use research and evidence to create positive change in health policy. We offer training for predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and individuals at mid-career. The program includes intensive mentoring and participatory seminars.
Clinical Research Fellowships sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Several research fellowships are available at the San Francisco VA Medical Center including those in Health Services Research and Development, Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Women's Health, Geriatric Neurology, Substance Abuse, Geriatrics, National Quality Scholars, Spinal Cord Injury, Parkinson Disease and Medical Informatics. Contact Beng Dela Fuente at 415 221-4810 x 3687.
Fellowships and other training opportunities concerning brain imaging in aging and neurodegenerative diseases are available at the Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases which is Directed by Michael W Weiner MD. Fellowship training ranges from MRI physics, to image reconstruction, image processing, psychology, and clinical research. For more information contact Dr Weiner.
UCSF Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program. UCSF has established a CIRM-sponsored program to train stem cell scholars in basic research who are cognizant of clinical needs, as well as scholars in clinical disciplines who are grounded in the basic science of stem cell research.