Dear Colleagues,

As we make our way into the holiday season, we wanted to pause to give thanks to you, for your steadfast pursuit of knowledge and understanding, for your collaboration, and for being outstanding peers who make UCSF a great place to do research. In this month’s edition, we’d like to highlight a few career development opportunities like the AIDS Research Institute Diversity Scholars Program and the Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation (MPPMI). There is also a great opportunity to interview with trainees at the postbaccalaureate stage who are interested in pursuing a career in research and qualify for funding through the NIH Diversity Supplement mechanism at the Diversity Supplement Matchmaking Event. And as usual, we congratulate all our colleagues for their successes in their research as we highlight their grants below.

Wishing you all good health and success.

All the best, 

Diane and David

Diane Havlir, MD, Associate Chair for Clinical Research

David Erle, MD, Associate Chair for Biomedical Research

Anushree Agarwal, MD, MBBS, assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology at UCSF Health, received a K23 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled, "Improving Transitions of Care for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease."

Giuseppe Cullaro, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology at UCSF Health, received a K23 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled, "Application of Novel Biomarkers of Renal Health in Cirrhosis Patients to Stratify Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Occurrence and Reversibility."

Maya Kotas, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine at UCSF Health, received a K08 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled, "Defining the Role of Tuft Cells in Allergic Airway Disease."

Alexandra Lee, PhD, MSPH, assistant professor in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF Health, received a K01 from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled, "Contributions of Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia to Adverse Geriatric Outcomes in NH Residents with Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)."

Jennifer Rosenbluth, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at UCSF Health, received an R01 from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled, "In Vitro Models as a Window to Learn How to Change Outcomes in Women at High Risk of Developing Breast Cancer."

Geoff Tison, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology at UCSF Health, received an R56 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled, "Developing a Platform for Deep Phenotyping of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Using Raw, Widely-available, Multi-modality Data and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms."

**If we missed your award, please email Ilona Paredes and we will make sure to include it in next month's issue of the research newsletter.**

DOM PREPARE Program

Requests for grant reviews are accepted on an ongoing basis

Although 57% of PREPARE review requests are for R awards, we also review K, U, and other awards. If you would like to request a concept sheet, full proposal or summary sheet review, click the button below.

For more information, click here.

REMINDER: Extramural The Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation (MPPMI)

Applications are due by November 29

MPPMI seeks to fuel innovation in precision medicine by fostering creative, high-risk, high-impact team science projects supporting the precision medicine continuum. The MPPMI invites proposals in four award categories ranging from $75K to $300K for Seeding Bold Ideas, Transformative Integrated Research, ELSI in Precision Medicine, and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) in Precision Medicine. UCSF faculty, as well as UCSF Sandler Fellows and Physician Scientist Scholars Program awardees, are eligible.

UCSF Population Health and Health Equity Scholars Program 

Applications are due by November 30

The Population Health and Health Equity Scholars program supports junior faculty at the assistant professor level and will provide flexible funding to accelerate and increase the impact of population health and/or health equity research or program evaluation. Each scholar will receive an award of $20,000 in support of this.

The award is designed to:

• Supplement resources for existing initiatives and/or 
• Support efforts to collect preliminary data that could lead to future funding proposals

Please click on this link to view the application. Applications are due by November 30, 2022. For questions, please contact pophealth@ucsf.edu.

UCSF The AIDS Research Institute Diversity Scholars Program

Applications are due by December 16

The AIDS Research Institute (ARI) and the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Diversity Scholar Award program are open for new applications. This program is intended to support the retention of early-stage faculty or senior fellows in HIV at UCSF whose work advances the ARI’s and the CFAR's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). ARI and CFAR will fund one Diversity Scholar grant ($75,000/year, renewable up to three years) annually. Applications are due by December 16, 2022. Please see the RFA for more information. For questions, please contact Kara Marson.

REMINDER: Extramural Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 

The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation is offering several types of awards:

• The Medical Resident Research Awards support up to $10,000 in salary or research-related costs for one year. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis at awards.cff.org. For questions, please contact Liz Yu.

• The Idea Development Award (IDA) is intended to support work that leads to sufficient project development to enable an application for future research funding from CFF or the NIH. Applications must be submitted online at awards.cff.org by February 2, 2023. For questions, please contact Dara Riva.

For general questions about any program, please contact grants@cff.org or call 301-841-2614. 

UCSF Clinical Science Faculty Research Lecture

The UCSF Academic Senate is hosting a faculty research lecture. Diane Havlir, MD, Professor and Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at ZSFG will present on Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Journey of a Thousand Miles on December 14, 2022, from 3:30-5:00pm. It will take place in-person at the Parnassus Campus in room HSW-301 and via Zoom, Passcode: 028558.

REMINDER: UCSF Diversity Supplement Matchmaking Event

UCSF is holding the third annual NIH Diversity Supplement Matchmaking Event on February 1, 2023, from 9am-1pm. The event will be virtual (by Zoom) and will provide you with an opportunity to have short, 15-minute interviews with trainees at the postbaccalaureate stage who are interested in pursuing a career in research and qualify for funding through the NIH Diversity Supplement mechanism. This NIH grant mechanism typically provides salary support for the trainee to work in your lab as a Junior Specialist for one to two years. You must have an eligible NIH grant to apply for the funds and the applications are submitted directly to the NIH through the institute that is funding your grant. 

If you are interested in attending, please register by clicking the button below. If you have any questions see here and here for FAQs. 

Effective January 25, 2023, prospective NIH grant and contract applications will be required to include a two-page data management and sharing plan outlining how scientific data will be managed and shared. Although many are already sharing summary level data, for example with clinical journals, the new policy requires sharing of individual participant-level data. The NIH is hosting a webinar series about the new policy; visit https://sharing.nih.gov/about/learning to view videos and slide decks.  

The below resources are available now to assist teams in preparing to apply for NIH grants beginning in January 2023: 

• Policy Overview and Data Management Plan Templates | Need general information about the policy? Aren’t sure what to say in your data management plan? Start here. 
• UCSF Library Data Management Guide | Here’s where to go for information on all things data management, including organizing and storing data. 
• UCSF Library Workshops | Want a place to learn about the policy and get answers to your questions? Register for an upcoming workshop. 

In addition, we are gathering budgetary examples for common study scenarios and hope to share this with you next month. Meanwhile, for questions about the new policy, contact Data Services Librarian Ariel Deardorff.