Faculty, Postdocs, Student & Staff Career Development Opportunities

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

Featured Career Development Opportunity

Generative AI's Role in Cancer Research and Healthcare

Friday, Jan. 12, 3pm - 4pm

Part of the HDFCCC's Friday Seminar Series. Attend in-person at the Helen Diller Building, Rm. 160 or online. More info. Open to all trainees, faculty, and staff.

Upcoming Career Development Opportunities

Women in Medicine CME Leadership Programs

Applications are open for 2 exclusive Women in Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME) longitudinal leadership programs: the Leadership Accelerator and Leadership Primer. These transformative programs are designed to empower women in medicine to advance and excel in leadership roles. Open to women physicians.

Physician Scientist Program in Clinical Oncology Seminars Thursdays 2pm-4pm

Jan. 11 - Conflict Management in Multi-Disciplinary Teams

Jan. 16, TUESDAY, 4-5:30pm, In-Person or Zoom - FDA Perspective on Clinical Research & Oncologic Drug Trials

Feb. 22 - Clinical Trial Design and Data Analysis

Feb. 29 - Clinical Trial Outcomes Research, PROs & Database Topics

April 25 - Maximizing the Impact of Your Work - The Role of Social Media

May 9, IN-PERSON - Leveraging Philanthropy to Build and Sustain Your Research Program

May 16 - Building Your Research Portfolio and Keeping it in the Black

Open to fellows and early career faculty

Upstream Research Center Pilot Awards

The Upstream Research Center, co-led by Stanford, UC Davis, and UCSF, is pleased to release the second round of requests for pilot proposals to catalyze novel and collaborative research that facilitates partnerships with new investigators and community partners. For more information, see the RFA and apply here. Proposals are due January 30, 2024, at 5:00 PM PST. Open to faculty and postdocs.

Robert A. Winn Career Development Award

Two-year program designed to support early-career investigator physicians from diverse backgrounds and demonstrate commitment to increasing diversity in clinical trials. Applications open 1/2/24 - 5/13/24. More info/apply.

The Breast Oncology Program Seminars

Monthly, Wednesdays, 8:30-10:00 AM

Register for Zoom sessions in advance, do not forward your registration link as the incorrect name will be listed. Each session has a unique link. Please turn your video on when you ask a question, out of courtesy for the speaker and to help build community.

January 10 – Renée van Amerongen, PhD; Revisiting the Role of WNT Signaling in Breast (Cancer) Biology; Registration
February 14 – Jim Wells, PhD, All in the neighborhoods of HER2 and EGFR; Registration
March 6 – Jacco van Rheenen, PhD; Intravital Microscopy to Study the Fate of Cells Carrying Mutations in Cancer Driver Genes; Registration
April 3 IN-PERSON – Ana Ruiz Saenz, PhD; Unmasking cancer cells to maximize the impact of HER2-targeting therapies; RSVP vantveer.admin@ucsf.edu, Zoom Registration
June 5 – Breast Program Best Poster Presentations; Zoom session Registration

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