Funding Opportunities

Clinical & Translational Research Funding

To translate scientific discoveries from laboratories into clinical research and practical advances for patients and communities.

Intramural

• Resource Allocation Program (RAP)
  A collaborative effort of UCSF's funding agencies to provide a common application and deadline for UCSF intramural programs. Funding includes:

  • support for pilot and complex cross-disciplinary research projects,
  • early development of diagnostics and therapeutics,
  • Clinical Research Services,
  • training or research activities, and more.
• Catalyst Award
  Provides extensive consultation and pilot funding to identify industry partnerships for investigators interested in developing discoveries into new therapies or diagnostic tests.
• UCSF Open Proposals
  Enabling proposal and team development
• Digital Health Innovators Forum
  Discuss questions and ideas about Digital Health development to improve the overall quality of grant proposals submitted for RAP funding.

Intramural and Extramural

• NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research

Extramural

• Community-Engaged and T2 Research Funding
• Comparative Effectiveness Research Funding
• Informatics Funding

Career Development Awards

To help investigators remain in academia and obtain expertise required for clinical and translational research.

Intramural and Extramural

• Career Development Awards
  Support for fellows and junior faculty from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to remain in academia, for women after childbearing leave, to relieve faculty who need to learn new methods and skills, and more

Funding for Residents and Fellows

To obtain expertise and skills in clinical and translational research or related research.

Intramural

• Research and Travel Funding for
  Residents
  Support for research expenses not covered by other sources, full tuition research stipends, training, travel to present research at scientific conferences, and more.
• NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research

Intramural and Extramural

• Postdoctoral Fellowships
  NIH postdoctoral and other Clinical and Translational Research fellowships.

Grant Writing Guidance

Examples of successful research proposals and expert advice on how to navigate and write grant applications.

• K Proposal Library (K08, K23, K24, K99)
  Learn from successful grant applications and reviews provided by UCSF award recipients.
• Writing NIH Mentored K Award
  Applications
  Provide online learning materials.
• T32 Proposal Library
  Learn from successful grant applications and reviews provided by UCSF award recipients.
• Diversity Supplement Proposal Library
  Learn from successful grant applications provided by UCSF award recipients.
• Data Safety Monitoring Protocol Library
  Examples of Data Safety Monitoring plans and board guidelines, including large scale, multicenter trials, and more.
• Biostatistics Consultation Services in Statistical Grant Writing
  Expert advice includes how to:
  • write and edit statistical proposal sections,
  • outline analysis strategies,
  • plan data collection and management,
  • devise study designs,
  • define outcome, predictor, and confounding variables, and
  • calculate sample size and power.