Office of Education and Training
Connecting the UCSF cancer community with education, mentoring and career development across all trainee levels.
The Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) Office of Education and Training’s (OET) Cancer Application REview (CARE) Program provides HDFCCC faculty with grant review for any multi-year, independent research grant or mentored career development awards (such as NIH K awards). CARE is intended to be a resource for HDFCCC faculty who are not in the Department of Medicine, as DOM members have access to the PREPARE Program.
The CARE Program provides two levels of review. First, a specific aims review via email is conducted approximately 6 weeks before the due date. Second, a full application review is provided 1-2 weeks before the due date via a meeting with the reviewers and the applicant.
Applicants can apply anytime, but in order to ensure we can find reviewers, we recommend applying at least 6-8 weeks before your due date. Once an application is received, CARE will confirm your reviewers and initiate your specific aim review. We will also schedule the review meeting for your full application review. Specific aims are due as soon as you are accepted into the program. The full draft will be due 1 week before the review meeting.
The goal of LEAP (Leveraging Expertise to Advance our Professionals/Professors) is to provide career mentoring to early career faculty who do not receive it elsewhere (departments, divisions, etc.).
Program Overview:
Click here to apply.
Questions? Email Jennifer Seuferer
Overview:
Emerging Cancer Scholars Exchange Program is designed to provide career development opportunities for Assistant Professors (approximately within 5 years of their appointment) and are Full or Associate HDFCCC Members via invited presentations at peer Cancer Centers. Through the Exchange Program, early career faculty will have the opportunity to develop relationships with potential research collaborators, mentors, and sponsors; hone their oral presentation skills; and bolster their CVs as they prepare for promotion. HDFCCC has been asked to be one of the partner institutions for this program. Other partnering institutions are University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, Case Western Cancer Center, Emory, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Chicago. Program Components Four to five HDFCCC faculty members will be chosen to be part of the program. HDFCCC members who are accepted earn the opportunity to be part of the Emerging Cancer Scholars Speaker Pool. From this pool of speakers, partnering institutions will invite 2 HDFCCC faculty members to speak. If you are selected to be part of the speaker pool, you are not guaranteed a speaking engagement, only to be part of the pool from which the partner institutions choose speakers. Speaking engagements (i.e., Grand Rounds or other Program Seminar, this will be determined by the hosting institution) will occur during the 2025/2026 academic year. All travel expenses will be paid.
Budget: HDFCCC Office of Education and Training will coordinate your travel arrangement and pay travel expenses (ex: airfare, hotel, ground transportation). The institution at which you speak will schedule the talk, coordinate faculty meetings, and cover any associate expenses (ex: faculty dinner). Faculty selected to speak will not receive an honorarium for their presentations. Eligible Faculty:
How to apply:
To apply, attach the following materials as a single PDF document (11pt Arial font, 1.5 line spacing).
Timeline:
All faculty are invited to two days of networking and development in the Fall.
Faculty Resource Fair – is an in-person networking and resource event. This is your opportunity to meet colleagues and gather resources from over 40 campus units. Please join us for refreshments and raffle prizes!
Faculty Development Day – offers virtual workshops for professional development and resources to enhance faculty life at UCSF. This event is relevant to faculty at all career stages, and all faculty members are encouraged to participate.
Check the website for specific dates/time each year