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I write my first official message as the Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (AVCR-IDEA) at the close of 2022. As we enter a new year, the cores of our society—democracy, health, and science—are under threat. These are challenging times for our old values, and we must respond by challenging our old ways. The last few years have shown that the usual approaches—separating science from health, health from health equity, individual health from community health, research communication from general communication (and disinformation), people working in science from people living in society, making small changes for diversity and equity without addressing structural racism and oppression—have failed.
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The AVCR-IDEA Office was created as one of 164 recommendations from the report of the Office of Research’s Task Force on Equity and Anti-Racism in Research. The Office is charged with strategizing and coordinating activities to achieve inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism (and more broadly, anti-oppression) in the UCSF research enterprise. The immediate work of the AVCR-IDEA Office is clearly stated in the 164 recommendations. The principles for the AVCR-IDEA Office are captured as "AEIOU." I hope to be able to elucidate what I mean by these principles in a future message.
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A: Accountability
E: Engagement
I: Individual-Centered Institutional Change
O: Opportunities
U: Unity
The Office aims to make short-term gains and long-term institutional change. For example, we intend to make as soon as possible IDEA work as part of the job description of everyone in the UCSF research enterprise. No doubt the short-term change will not come fast enough for some, and the long-term institutional change will be too drastic for some. We welcome engagement, tension, and discomfort coming from the spirit of partnership to make UCSF a better place. I am proud of UCSF, but we can and should always aim to be and to do better.
I hope you will join me in the core work of a researcher—creating positive changes. The next major task of the Office is to implement the Task Force recommendation to create a Research IDEA Oversight Committee consisting of faculty and research scientists, staff, trainees, and community leaders committed to promoting IDEA in the UCSF research enterprise. Please help us by reviewing the call for applications. And if you work on an NIH grant that is eligible for a Diversity Supplement, please consider the February 1 matchmaking event (fill out the online registration and find more information here and here). I hope to see you all working together with me to make UCSF, our communities, and our country a healthier and more equitable place.
Sincerely,
Tung Nguyen, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism
Stephen J. McPhee, MD Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine
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UC-UAW Negotiations Update |
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The University of California (UC) has reached tentative agreements with the two remaining United Auto Workers (UAW) bargaining units representing the Graduate Student Researchers (GSR) and Academic Student Employees (ASE). The tentative agreements follow recently ratified contracts with Postdoctoral Scholars and Academic Researchers, who reached tentative agreement with the UC in late November. Learn more.
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Listen Up: Innovation Ventures Podcast |
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Have you heard? (And Yet) It Moves is the Innovation Ventures podcast series hosted by Sean Karlin on SoundCloud. In its latest episode, Roopa Ramamoorthi, senior director of the InVent Fund, is in conversation with Kevan Shokat and Natalia Jura about innovation, entrepreneurship, and insights regarding their InVent Fund project for a novel class of HER3 inhibitors and the UCSF spin-out company Rezo.
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Professor of Social Behavioral Sciences
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Associate Professor of Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
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Register now! UCSF is a co-sponsor of the Precision Medicine World Conference, which will be held January 25-27 in Santa Clara and feature 28 UCSF experts and two honorees.
January 27, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. | Mission Bay
The San Francisco Bay Collaborative Research Network (SFBayCRN) and the UCSF Impacting Practice and Policy by Accelerating Translation (IMPACT) Program invite you to join our annual meeting. Featured speakers include UCSF’s Peter Chin-Hong, California State Epidemiologist Erica Pan, as well as leaders from important community initiatives.
February 1, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. | virtual
The UC Health Center for Data-driven Insights and Innovation Systemwide Real-World Evidence Collaborative is planning an in-person conference held at UC Irvine on April 19. Respond to this one-minute survey if you're interested in attending and receiving more information.
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A reminder to all researchers seeking NIH support of research proposing to generate scientific data: Beginning with submission due dates on or after January 25, 2023, you will be required to include a two-page Data Management and Sharing plan outlining how your scientific data will be managed and shared. For more information and resources to help you comply with the new requirement, please visit the UCSF Library’s dedicated webpage.
Last chance to sign up for Laboratory Equipment Company's instant rebate of $1,200 off qualifying Panasonic ULT Freezer models! Participants will be eligible to receive an additional UCSF incentive of $1,400 for a new freezer or $3,900 for a replacement. Orders must be placed by December 30.
Applications now open for a one- or two-year Clinical Research Informatics Postdoctoral (CRISP) fellowship and are due on February 15. Don’t miss the information session on January 19 from 6:30-8 p.m.! Email Christian.Leiva@ucsf.edu for an invitation.
Fellowship applications are now available for physician scientists who are committed to academic research careers discovering and translating novel applications of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine to clinical problems. Deadline: February 1, 5pm.
Basic researchers and physician scientists who catalyze research in basic and biomedical sciences, plant biology, evolutionary biology, biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology are eligible to apply directly to the HHMI for a new competition. HHMI seeks a broad applicant pool and will appoint approximately 25 scientists who will push the bounds of biomedical research and train and mentor the next generation of scientists. Deadline: March 21.
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