UCSF is Top Public Recipient of National Institutes of Health Funding |
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"The funding from NIH is critical in supporting high-quality science across the translational spectrum – from discovery to population health. It is also essential funding for our students and trainees, who contribute so much to research at UCSF," said Catherine Lucey, MD, executive vice chancellor and provost. "This enables the excellence of our programs in educating the next generation of scientists and clinicians."
Relatedly, UCSF is the top public university for 2021 federally funded research and development expenditures (R&D). The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) reported that R&D spending by academic institutions totaled $89.9 billion in FY2021, an increase of 4% from FY2020. UCSF was ranked second at $1.71 billion, a 3.6% increase from FY2020. The data are from the Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey, sponsored by the NCSES within the National Science Foundation, and demonstrate funds expended for activities to support research outcomes.
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Ida Sim Named Chief Research Informatics Officer |
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Ida Sim, PhD, MD was appointed UCSF’s first chief research informatics officer (CRIO), effective April 1. Dr. Sim will lead UCSF's research informatics strategy, working closely with Mandy Terrill, associate chief information officer for research, to advance a broad vision for the future. Central to this is positioning UCSF at the forefront of technology-centric research, including artificial intelligence, computational science, and digital health. The CRIO role will support UCSF’s research informatics community across the spectrum — from basic science to clinical trials and health services research; from translational science to population health and health equity.
As a professor of medicine, primary care physician, informatics researcher, and nonprofit entrepreneur, Dr. Sim brings a wealth of expertise and accomplishment to this important new role including recognition as a global leader in the technology and policy of large-scale health data sharing.
Dr. Sim is the UCSF Director of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, and will be stepping down from the roles of director of digital health for the Division of General Internal Medicine and Informatics lead for UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Informatics and Research Innovation program.
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Ask Your Legislators to Support UCSF in This Year’s State Budget |
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UCSF is also requesting $1.8 million for the Doctor of Dental Surgery - Advocacy, Science, Public Interest and Research (DDS-ASPIRE) program, which will train dental students to become leaders in health equity and provide high-quality oral healthcare to underserved communities. Thank you for your advocacy!
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Profiles Hotlist: Celebrating Women in Discovery Science |
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In honor of International Women and Girls in Science Day and Women's History Month, we are celebrating our laboratory leaders: our immune investigators, stem cell sleuths, gut groundbreakers, and protein pathfinders.
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March 27, 10 a.m.- noon | virtual
Part of Digital Health Humanities pilot programming, this session will orient participants to archival research and digital analysis methods used to work with data from archival collections. We will showcase datasets from AIDS History Project collections, UCSF University Publications, and more.
March 29, 9:30 a.m.- 6 p.m. | Mission Bay
This all-day Friedrich Alexander University and UCSF workshop features 15 scientific sessions and a keynote address "Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare: The Road Ahead" by Dorin Comaniciu, PhD.
April 4, 4-5:45 p.m. | Genentech Hall and YouTube live stream
Come out to support 10 PhD student finalists in UCSF's 7th Annual Grad Slam Competition as part of our celebration of National Graduate Student Appreciation Week. Students will present their research in 3 minutes or less in front of the judges (our Chancellor Sam Hawgood is a judge) and the first prize winner will move on to compete in the UC systemwide Grad Slam in May.
Be part of the annual UCSF Health Services Research Symposium on May 23 at Mission Bay! UCSF faculty, trainees (past and current), and research teams are invited to submit one or more abstracts describing health services research projects. Deadline: April 7.
April 12, 1-3 p.m. and April 13, 10 a.m. - noon
Radiation users are invited to join either day to discuss migrating RUAs to the new UC Radiation application. Town hall location/zoom information is on the EH&S Radiation Safety Resources webpage, along with application links, tutorials and more.
April 17, 12:10-1:15 p.m. | Zoom
UC Berkeley Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch will present "From the Cell to the Street: Addressing Structural Determinants to Advance the Science of Environmental Justice."
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The UCSF CTSI CRISP Fellowship is accepting applications from clinician scientists for one- or two-year fellowships starting July 2023. Deadline: April 3.
The spring award cycle for PBBR is accepting proposals in New Frontier Research and Technologies, Methodologies & Cores. Deadline: April 21.
With National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases pilot funding, the DREAMS-CDTR invites proposals for early-stage investigators whose research is focused on health equity in diabetes prevention and control. Deadline: April 24.
Planning to apply? Reach out to Tung Nguyen to learn about resources at UCSF that can support an outstanding application. Deadline: May 12, 9 p.m.
This career development award is an opportunity for junior faculty scientists focused on genitourinary health. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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Infrastructure and Operations |
After May 11, 2023, OHRP will no longer grant exceptions to the single IRB (sIRB) requirement for certain collaborative studies. Research already approved under the exception are not impacted by this update.
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Information, Trainings, and Tools |
EH&S has revised the safety update for Isoflurane Procedures for Safe Use, available on our website. It supports the Waste Anesthetic Gas (WAG) training, required for all researchers using inhalation anesthetics. Both resources cover hazards and safe practices for anesthetic gases in animal research.
The portal is a new resource that connects UCSF staff, learners, and educators of all skill levels to data science courses, workshops, and other data-related training resources offered by UCSF departments and the Gladstone Institute.
UCSF provides valuable CMS Medicare datasets for research, accessible to UCSF members to reuse for a fee, which is a substantial saving compared to direct requests from CMS. Services include consultation, appropriate data selection, IRB guidance, statistical analysis, and data cleaning, wrangling, and harmonization.
Are you a qualitative researcher who has questions about the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy? You’re not alone. If you missed the webinar from January 25, 2023, you can find an online recording with the session slides. The webinar was sponsored by the Library, HRPP, and CTSI.
Interested in resources, opportunities, and events relevant to the UCSF research data community? Subscribe to UCSF Research Data Guild communications. We communicate information and updates about support, compute, tools, and data available to for research (and send only 4-10 messages/year).
UC BRAID, the consortium to help catalyze innovative ideas and leverage shared resources for the research community to solve problems, increase opportunities, and create efficiencies of scale, is pleased to share their report of 2020-2022 Program Highlights.
All clinical research coordinators are strongly encouraged to attend foundational courses: Orientation, Informed Consent, IRB & Safety Reporting, Pre and Post Award Tasks, Effective Communication, and Data Management. For schedule and registration details, visit the Training website.
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ideas of interest to our research community.
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