Dear Colleagues,

First, we want to congratulate two of our Department of Medicine colleagues on their first NIH R01 grants. This is a major accomplishment and milestone that we should celebrate! Second, in honor of Women's History Month, UCSF Profiles highlights hundreds of women faculty, trainee, and staff scientists – many from DOM – who are essential contributors to our research mission. Finally, in this issue we are also sharing the announcement that UCSF will be holding its 2nd annual symposium for the Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center with Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo as the keynote speaker. And check out the funding opportunities section.



All the best, 

Diane and David

Diane Havlir, MD, Associate Chair for Clinical Research

David Erle, MD, Associate Chair for Biomedical Research

Melissa Conrad, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine at ZSFG, received an R01 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled, "Surveillance to track and characterize antimalarial resistance trends in Ugandan Plasmodium falciparum parasites (STARTUP)."

Bruce Wang, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology at UCSF Health, received an R01 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled, "Characterizing zonated hepatocyte sexual dimorphism and its role in fatty liver disease."

UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center (MERC) Research Symposium

Join us for the 2nd Annual UCSF MERC Research Symposium on Friday, April 14, 2023, from 12-1:30pm. The Symposium will feature keynote speaker Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, followed by brief research talks from Emerging Health Equity Scholar awardees.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is the 17th editor-in-chief of the Journal for the American Medical Association. She is the Lee Goldman, MD professor of Medicine and professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.

For additional information, click here. To register, click the button below.

DOM PREPARE Program

Requests for grant reviews are accepted on an ongoing basis

Check out what our faculty have to say about their experience with this program:

"This is an excellent program, especially for junior faculty like me. The registration and organization of this program were very smooth and easy to navigate. Importantly, the review of my K proposal was high quality and I got very helpful suggestions to improve my proposal. I am deeply grateful for my reviewers and people who helped to coordinate this review." - Nhung Nguyen, PhD, Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

SOM One-Time Funding to Cover Costs of New Collective Bargaining Agreements

The School of Medicine Dean's Office and the Chancellor/Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost (EVCP) are developing approaches to address the short- and long-term challenges facing our research and education programs.

As an immediate measure funding will be provided to address extraordinary cost increases generated by the collective bargaining agreements through September of 2024. They hope this solution will provide some relief and time for PIs to develop individual plans for their own research groups.

• Each principal investigator will receive $12,000 per postdoctoral scholar, for up to three scholars.
• Each principal investigator and/or program will receive $2,400 for each basic sciences graduate student.
• Support for social sciences graduate students will be addressed at a later date.
• The UAW-negotiated salary increase for Academic Research Staff aligns with current and planned increases for faculty and non-represented staff, so no additional support will be provided, and these expenses remain with individual principal investigators/programs.

REMINDER: UCSF Diabetes Research for Equity through Advanced Multilevel Science Center for Diabetes Translation Research (DREAMS-CDTR)

Applications are due by April 24

The DREAMS-CDTR invites proposals for preliminary research focused on health equity that will provide pilot data essential for planning future diabetes translation research K-award and R-level awards by early stage investigators.

Applicants must be an early-stage investigator, have a doctoral degree (e.g., MD, PhD, DrPH), and currently be primarily affiliated with one of the DREAMS-CDTR institutions (Kaiser Permanente Northern California, UCSF, UC Davis, UC Merced, Stanford).

Pilots are funded by NIDDK through the DREAMS Center. For questions regarding the RFP, please contact Dean Schillinger. For application instructions, click here. To apply, click the button below.

DOM Cohort Grant

Applications are due by May 1

Each year, the UCSF Department of Medicine offers grants of up to $100,000 for a period of 12-24 months either to initiate the development of new UCSF patient cohorts or to expand the use of existing UCSF cohorts into new areas. The goal is to develop cohorts that could be widely used by both clinical and bench investigators. 

All UCSF faculty members with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine faculty at any site are eligible to apply. Special consideration will be given to new or junior investigators with mentors who have relevant experience in the design, creation, and/or maintenance of patient cohorts. To read more about eligibility criteria and application details, click here. To apply, click the button below.

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Please send comments, suggestions and questions to:

Diane Havlir, MD, Associate Chair for Clinical Research (diane.havlir@ucsf.edu)

David Erle, MD, Associate Chair for Biomedical Research (david.erle@ucsf.edu)