Connecting the UCSF cancer community with education, mentoring, and career development across all trainee levels.
Featured Career Development Opportunity
Characteristics of Successful Applicants
June 1, 4pm - 5:30pm
Panel discussion with admission directors from medical schools, nursing, and physician assistant programs throughout California. Each will give advice and answer your questions. Schools participating are UCSF, SFSU, Cal State East Bay, UC Irving, UC Davis, Samuel Merritt, and Stanford. Open to all HDFCCC staff. Click here to register.
panel discussion
Upcoming Career Development Opportunities
HDFCCC Physician Scientist Training Opportunities
Part of the HDFCCC K12 Physician Scholars Program in Clinical Oncology, these seminar series are open to all senior fellows and early career faculty. Click here for more information and to register.
  1. Concept to Completion - Strategies for Successful Clinical Trials - Certificate of Completion available
  2. Leadership and Career Development Seminar
  3. Clinically Driven Discovery Science in Cancer: From Bench to Bedside (July 18-22, 2022)
CURE Summer Internship
Be a Mentor!

Looking for faculty, postdoc or graduate student mentors. Postdoc and graduate student mentors receive a $500 stipend. The interns’ stipends are already funded. Click here for more information.
Looking for Medical School, NP, and PA Mock Interviewers

We are looking for faculty, fellows, nurse practitioners and physician assistants to be mock interviewers to current HDFCCC staff applying to medical, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant programs. Click here for more information. Email Jennifer Seuferer if interested.
Beyond Academia: Exploring Careers in Science Communication and Outreach
Thursday, May 26, 2022, 11am - 12pm, Virtual
Speaker: Amitabha "Guppy" Gupta, PhD
Associate Director, Scientific Content and Engagement
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Open to all. Register here
UC Pancreatic Cancer Consortium Virtual Symposium:
Pancreatic Cancer: Microbiome, Diet, and Environment
May 13, 8:30am-12pm

Click here for more information. Register here. Open to all.
Agonising Over Antagonising the Androgen Receptor in Breast and Prostate Cancer
May 17, 10am

Speaker: Dr. Wayne Tilly, Director, Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide. Hybrid event. Bakar Auditorium HD-160 or Zoom Link. Open to all.

Computational Cancer Community (C3) Monthly Meeting - Computational approaches for interpreting somatic mutation events in the noncoding cancer genome
May 9, 9am - 10am

Speaker: Felix Dietlein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School; Faculty in Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. More information here. Open to all.
National Clinician Scholars Program
Application Deadline July 15
NCSP offers nurses and physicians an innovative two-year, postdoctoral interprofessional training program in leadership and research, preparing them for a wide range of careers. Click here for more information and to apply.
Click here for more career development resources and training
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