UCSF Faculty Make STAT’s 2024 STATUS List |
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Ida Sim MD, PhD, UCSF’s chief research informatics officer, was recognized as a one of 50 influential people on STAT News’ 2024 STATUS List, which highlights influential people shaping the future of health and life sciences. The recognition described her as a “major force behind the advancement of digital medicine” and cited her largely “behind-the-scenes work on gnarly technical problems” including co-founding Open MHealth and co-developing the open-source software suite Common Health. Her work as co-director of the new UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health and the newly launched Agile Metabolic Health effort was also cited.
The list also recognized Diana Greene Foster, PhD, MA, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and 2023 MacArthur Grant recipient for her work on the Turnaway Study about the long-term effects of abortion denial.
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New Clinical Trial Excellence Campaign (CTEC) Resources Available |
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Stay up to date with CTEC training and resources available to our research community on our website!
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NIH Extramural Grant Investments in Research |
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In a recent column, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael Lauer, MD shares the annual update on NIH application, award, and success rate data for fiscal year (FY) 2023 enacted appropriations, including data on R01-equilvalent grants. Read the column for more information.
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Parnassus Heights Construction Update |
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The Early 2024 update includes the latest news regarding the Parnassus Research and Academic Building (PRAB) and the New Hospital at Parnassus Heights (NHPH). Read more.
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Lab Managers: Join the Lab Manager Listserv! |
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The Lab Resource Group facilitates communication between researchers and the greater UCSF community. To join the lab manager listserv, send a one-line email with no subject and the message "subscribe LABMNGRGROUP [your first name] [your last name]" to listserv@listsrv.ucsf.edu.
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UCSF Requests Faculty, Staff Complete Out-of-Date Mandatory Trainings |
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UCSF has launched an enterprise-wide effort to improve compliance rates for mandatory trainings, a priority monitored by the University of California Office of the President. These trainings address important issues across the entire UC enterprise, including bolstering knowledge of cybersecurity, preventing harassment, supporting a diverse and equitable community, and addressing ethical issues like financial disclosures.
Being compliant with these trainings is everyone’s responsibility and directly tie into honoring the University’s PRIDE Values of professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence. Learn more and complete your overdue trainings.
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Enhanced Ultra-Low Freezer Rebate |
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This new Value Improvement project provides an enhanced rebate of up to $10,000 for replacing old inefficient ULT freezers with Energy-Star-certified models.
Take advantage of this opportunity to significantly reduce operational costs while contributing to campus-wide efforts to reduce our energy intensity. Rebate open to all UCSF principal investigators.
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IRB Spotlight: Parnassus Chair Victor Reus |
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Professor Emeritus and Parnassus IRB Chair Victor Reus, MD, has dedicated more than two decades to ensuring that UCSF meets its high standards for participant welfare, safety, and privacy.
Read the new Q&A about his time on the IRB and recent innovations in protecting participants and supporting investigators.
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CTSI was proud to celebrate Black History Month by amplifying the work of four amazing research colleagues in conversation with AVC-CR and CTSI Director Vanessa Jacoby, MD, MAS. We invite you to watch and share these inspiring videos!
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Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Neurology
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Professor, Emergency Medicine
JAMA Network Open
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Associate Professor, Institute for Health & Aging
The American Journal of Bioethics
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Funding and Fellowship Opportunities |
Postdoctoral fellowship funding available for two clinician investigators starting July 1. CRISP fellows receive in-depth training in data science methods, conduct a mentored research project, and participate in regular work-in-progress sessions. Deadline: April 1.
Now accepting proposals for two award categories: New Frontiers Research, and Technologies, Methodologies & Cores. Deadline: April 19.
Apply for this all-expense-paid training opportunity for junior faculty in the biomedical sciences with a research focus on heart, lung, blood or sleep disorders.
The program solicits innovative collaborative proposals that fuel innovation in precision medicine by fostering creative, high-risk, and high-impact projects in basic science and extending into the continuum toward improved patient outcomes. Stay tuned for more information and contact Gretchen Kiser with questions.
Opportunities include the Sprint for Women's Health Initiative and a focus on rare diseases.
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New Policies and Requirements |
The Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) announces implementation of the new Facilities and Administrative costs (F&A) agreement from the Department of Health and Human Services. The agreement applies to all new, renewal, resubmission, competing revision, and transfer-in proposals for grants, contracts and other agreements with the federal government. Effective February 27, 2024.
NOT-OD-24-061 informs applicants that this notice supersedes prior guidance on marking changes in resubmission applications, effective May 25, 2024.
NOT-OD-24-057 provides information regarding salary limitation for NIH grants, cooperative agreements, and extramural research and development contracts for FY 2024, including a new salary limitation for Executive Level II.
NOT-HS-24-006 provides information regarding the salary limitation for grants, cooperative agreements, and extramural research and development contracts from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ).
NIH operates under the Extension of Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2024, which continues government operations through March 22, 2024.
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Inside Higher Ed
While conversation among experts remains essential to the production of knowledge, it is poorly suited for dissemination to broader audiences.
Science
President Joe Biden sent the U.S. Congress a $7.3 trillion spending blueprint that includes priorities for research. But in an era of flat budgets, being on the White House’s priority list may not mean getting more money.
Nature
A new piece from UCSF 's Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS, and Claire Brindis, DrPH.
UCSF School of Dentistry
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March 21, 12:05–1 p.m., Virtual
Learn how to recruit study participants on social media, create efficient screeners, and prevent fraud. Join us, ask questions, and learn more!
March 21, 12–1 p.m., Virtual
Test your survival instincts by working together to solve puzzles, crack codes, and unravel mysteries to escape this icy predicament.
March 27 and April 3, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Parnassus Nursing Mezzanine
At this event, you'll have the opportunity to transform plain candlesticks into stunning works of art.
April 3, 12:10–1 p.m., Virtual
Do you have questions on enrolling subjects in OnCore, linking encounters, visit tracking, placing research orders, or research billing review? OnCore and APeX research trainers are hosting monthly office hours.
April 5, 12–1 p.m., Mission Hall
Hear Stanford's Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD address "Shaping the Responsible Adoption of AI in Healthcare."
April 17–18, The Cove at UC Irvine
This event is a unique opportunity to connect with a diverse community of professionals and industry leaders in AI in biomedicine, health data governance, and real-world evidence.
April 19, 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., UC Law SF
This day-long symposium will bring together lawyers, historians, clinicians, social scientists, community members, and policymakers to expose modern day health care segregation and begin to build partnerships to dismantle segregated health care.
April 23, 1–2 p.m., HSW300
Join UCSF Broad Stem Cell Center to hear Theodore Roth, MD, PhD, on “CRISPR-All: A Unified Genetic Perturbation Language for Cellular Programming.”
April 24, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Virtual
The symposium will feature keynote speaker Arleen Brown, MD, PhD and the Emerging Health Equity Scholar awardees who will be presenting their research.
April 29, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m., Mission Bay Conference Center
The San Francisco Bay Collaborative Research Network (SFBayCRN) and the UCSF Impacting Practice and Policy by Accelerating Translation (IMPACT) Program cordially invite you to join this meeting to discuss the topic, "Housing, Labor, and Health Care: Mapping the Future of Community Engaged Research and Action."
May 22, 2–4 p.m., Virtual
UCSF Clinical Trials Day is an annual celebration of the contributions of CRCs to our clinical research enterprise. All CRCs and clinical research support staff are welcome to join. Stay tuned for details!
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Information, Trainings, and Tools |
Try out the new module on UC SumTotal highlighting Generative AI, Large Language Models and Versa, UCSF's Generative AI platform.
UCSF researchers, educators, learners and staff are invited to take the survey to help identify grant and academic writing support needs on campus. Respondents could win a $50 gift card. Deadline: March 22.
The department. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics is pleased to offer Spring courses in clinical research, epidemiology, biostatistics, data science, implementation science and more. Deadline: March 31.
UCSF training in Clinical Research has four programs to fit your career needs: master's, certificate, one-year workshop, and summer workshop. Learn how to integrate research training into your education and advance your research career. Deadline: March 22 for master's degree.
Advance your career with a UCSF MS or certificate in Health Data Science. This is a rapidly growing field, and our graduates are prepared for many careers, including clinical research, public health, biotechnology, consulting and academia. Deadline: April 1.
The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has opened registration for this new short course.
Hazardous chemicals should never be disposed of down the drain. Wastes generated at UCSF are considered hazardous if they are listed in the hazardous waste regulations, or have certain characteristics which make them hazardous, including: toxic, ignitable/flammable, corrosive and reactive.
The IRB's iRIS help site offers tutorials, PDF guides, and videos with step-by-step guidance about completing tasks in iRIS. MyAccess login is required.
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