Connecting the UCSF cancer community with education, mentoring, and career development across all trainee levels.

Featured Career Development Opportunity

Healthcare Professional Career Development Program

Career development for HDFCCC Staff who are interested in applying to a healthcare professional program

Path to MD


This panel will feature UCSF Residents discussing how they navigated their way through med school applications and selection and how they are developing their career as residents. Open to HDFCCC staff. Register

Med School Application Essay Mentoring


This program matches HDFCCC staff members who are applying to med school with current UCSF medical students for 1x1 essay mentoring. Space is limited, please apply early. For more information and to apply, click here.

Upcoming Career Development Opportunities

Translational Research Workshops

Clinically Driven Discovery Science in Cancer - From Bench to Bedside Workshop

July 24 - 28


This workshop provides training and a rigorous foundation for hypothesis-driven, patient-focused research, covering clinical and preclinical iteration. Open to early career faculty, clinical fellows, postdocs, and graduate students.


For more information and to register click here.

Prostate Cancer Program Research Workshop: Bench to Bedside Therapeutics in Prostate Cancer

Feb. 1, 9am - 12pm.


Workshop Chairs: Rahul Aggarwal, MD; Felix Feng, MD. Workshop Speakers: Michelle Arkin, PhD; Robert Blelloch, MD/PhD; Charles Craik, PhD; Bin Liu, PhD; Davide Ruggero, PhD


Click here for more information.






LEAP Faculty Mentoring Program

Applications due March 13


LEAP provides career mentoring to early career HDFCCC faculty who do not receive it elsewhere. Applicants will be matched with mentors in late March. For more information and to apply, click here.

Travel Grants for Postdocs

Applications due Jan. 23


Two grants of up to $1500 will be given. For one grant, priority is given to postdocs from historically underrepresented groups. You must work in an HDFCCC member's lab and must be attending a cancer specific conference. Open to all HDFCCC postdocs. Details/Application.

HDFCCC K12 Upcoming Seminars


Engaging Community in Your Work - How to Do it and Why it Matters - Jan. 26, 2-4pm


Clinical Trial Design & Data Analysis - Feb. 23, 2023, 2-4pm


Open to early career faculty, clinical fellows, postdocs and graduate students. For information on the From Concept to Completion, Strategies for Successful Clinical Trials Certificate, click here or email Jennifer Seuferer.

UCSF Cancer Services Nurse Practitioner Fellowship

Applications due March 1


This fellowship program is an opportunity for 2 novice Nurse Practitioners to complete a rigorous 12-month program providing over 2000 hours of cancer-based training with didactics and focused clinical rotations. For more information and to apply, click here.

HDFCCC Workshop for Values-Based Leadership

March 3, 2023


This workshop aims to empower faculty to become authentic leaders who are self-aware and genuine, mission driven, focused on results, lead with their hearts and minds, and focus on the long-term. Open to all HDFCCC female and gender minority faculty. For more information and to apply, click here.

Collaborative Career Advancement Network (C-CAN) Educational Stipends


C-CAN is offering 20 stipends of $500 for costs associated with career advancement. Funds can go towards pre-requisites, conference fees, application fees, and other on a case-by-case basis. To find out more about C-CAN, eligibility requirements, and to apply click here.

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