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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Mini-Grants
The HDFCCC Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) offers mini-grants to support career development activities for faculty, staff, and trainees across the UCSF cancer community.
Four award types are offered: (1) Administrative Support, (2) Community Building, (3) Conference Travel, and 4) Professional Development.
The application link can be found in the March UCSF Cancer Community Connect newsletter.
| Spring/Summer 2025 Cycle | Fall/Winter 2025 Cycle | |
|---|---|---|
| Application Opens | March 3rd, 2025 | September 1st, 2025 |
| Applications Due | April 11th, 2025 | October 10th, 2025 |
| Award Notification | May 5th, 2025 | November 3rd, 2025 |
| Award Period | May 5th, 2025 - June 30th, 2026 | November 3rd, 2025 - June 30th, 2026 |
2024 DEIA Mini Grant Recipients
Administrative Support
- Mia Salans, MD, MAS - clinical resident
- Petria Thompson, MD, PhD - clinical resident
- Jane (Jaeyun) Wang, MD - clinical resident
Community Building
- Jessica Chew, MD - faculty
- Lindsay Williams - staff
Conference Travel
- Paola Betancur, PhD - faculty
- Catriona Black - staff
- Shaterra Davis, RN - staff
- Aaron Diaz, PhD - faculty
- Samantha Fisch, MD - clinical resident
- Mayra A. Gomez Padua, PhD, MA - staff
- Austin Graham, PhD - postdoctoral fellow
- Laura Huppert, MD - faculty
- Mandeep Kaur - medical student
- Donghwa Kim, PhD - postdoctoral fellow
- Audrey Kishishita - graduate student
- Caroline Thuy Le - staff
- Hyunju Lee - staff
- Tamandra Morgan, MD, ScM – clinical fellow
- Ryan Nguyen - staff
- Eva N. Pardo, MPH - staff
- Alexander Qian, MD - clinical resident
- Astrid Quirarte - staff
- Kevin Reyes - medical student
- Jacquie Tidball - staff
- Leah Ung - staff
- Karina Wong - staff
Professional Development
- Lia Banie - staff
- Vanessa Cavalcante, RN - staff
- Clarissa - staff
- Neslihan Kayraklioglu, MD, PhD - clinical fellow
- Nihari Patel, MPH - staff
- Amanda Sibley, MPH, PhD - staff
Previous Awardees
2023 DEIA Mini-Grant Recipients
2022 DEIA Mini-Grant Recipients
Administrative Support
- Lucy Young, PhD - staff
Conference Travel
- Samrawit Agezew - medical student
- Kimberly Badal, PhD - postdoctoral fellow
- Ashley Bolden - staff
- Brittany Campbell - staff
- Li Cao, PhD - postdoctoral fellow
- Emma Greenstreet Akman - medical student
- Rohini Jain, MD - clinical fellow
- Katie Lichter, MPH, MD - clinical resident
- Nathan Magalit - medical student
- Kelsey Natsuhara, MD - clinical fellow
- Ernesto Rojas - graduate student
- Matthew Ryan - graduate student
Professional Development
- Celene Balido - staff
- Jiaying Chen, PhD - postdoctoral fellow
- Ghmkin Hassan, PhD, MSc - postdoctoral fellow
- Mieka Johnson - staff
- Ramon Ortiz Catalan, PhD - postdoctoral fellow
- Priya Parikh, MD - faculty
- Rachel Sabol, MD - clinical resident
Administrative Support
- Jie Jane Chen, MD - clinical resident
- Jennifer James, PhD, MS, MSW - faculty
- Bridget Keenan, MD, PhD - faculty
- Katie Lichter, MPH, MD - clinical resident
- Sean McClellan, MD - clinical fellow
- Priya Parikh, MD - clinical fellow
- Hilde Schjerven, PhD - faculty
Program Testimonial
Samra Agezew ⭐️ medical student @UCSFMedicine presenting results from analysis of @NCCN Harmonized Guidelines for Sub-Saharan Africa: Breast Cancer.
- pic.twitter.com/FIYQpqEOUG — Geoffrey Buckle (@geoffreybuckle) November 5, 2023
“The funds from the DEIA Mini-Grant were crucial in making it possible for me to attend the conference by covering travel expenses, which would have been a barrier due to the high cost of international travel.”
Samrawit Agezew, a medical student and global cancer researcher, received a DEIA Mini-Grant to attend the 2023 African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC) conference, held on Nov 2-6 in Senegal. Read more from previous grant recipients.