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Resource Allocation Program

The Resource Allocation Program (RAP) acts as a one-stop shop for several intramural funding mechanisms by managing the dissemination, submission, review and award for these opportunities. For more information, visit the RAP webpage or contact Emy Volpe, Program Director, at (415) 502-1674 or [email protected].

School of Medicine Bridge Program
The Bridge Funding Program provides up to 12 months of support for full-time faculty members with independent research programs, who are experiencing a temporary loss of significant funding. The program is intended to support applicants who face a funding gap between two extramural research grants (usually R01 or equivalent). Typically, applicants have been unsuccessful in a recent attempt to renew or replace a federal grant but are likely to be funded upon submission of a revised application, based on scores and reviewers’ comments.

Academic Senate
The AS represents the faculty half of the shared governance of UCSF and offers Individual Investigator Grants, Shared Instrumentation Grants, Travel Grants, and other funding through the Chancellor's Fund. Some funding flows through the RAP Program.

Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
HDFCCC has a vibrant intramural awards program that administers CCSG developmental funds as well as foundation and philanthropic funds for pilot projects.

Hellman Fellows Program
The UCSF Hellman Fellows Program provides short-term support for outstanding faculty at the assistant professor level whose work shows originality and promise of distinction, and assists promising young faculty at the point at which start-up funds have been exhausted and before their research qualifies for other external support.
Call for applications goes out every February via the Limited Submissions listserv.
 

Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research
PBBR seeks to stimulate and support highly innovative basic science research at UCSF, with a focus on potentially high-impact basic science projects that are creative, risky, and transformative, and novel ideas that are more ambitious than those that receive funding from NIH and other traditional funding mechanisms.
 

QB3
QB3 is the University of California's hub for early-stage entrepreneurship in life science for human health, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. It promotes cross-campus, interdisciplinary research using quantitative approaches to tackle the most difficult challenges. It offers partnerships with industry and support for entrepreneurial scientists in the form of research facilities, educational programs, internships, mentoring, incubators, and a seed-stage venture fund.
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Research Grants Program Office
The RGPO at the University of California Office of the President oversees a broad grantmaking portfolio of nearly $65 million a year to support research that is critical to California, the nation and the world. RGPO offers funding through a variety of statewide research programs and UC-wide initiatives.
 

Rosenman Institute
The Rosenman Institute aims to drive medical device innovation and improve patient care by helping entrepreneurs develop technologies from concept to commercialization. It offers access to funding directly through its own network and through MedTech Venture Partner

University Development and Alumni Relations
UDAR facilitates the allocation of monies endowed to UCSF. These funds are usually dedicated to specific departments or areas of research and typically are to be used at the investigator's discretion.

NIH Office of Extramural Research: The largest funder of biomedical research in the world; coordinates funding opportunities from the twenty-four grant-awarding Institutes and Centers of the NIH.

Agency for Health-Care Research and Quality (AHRQ): Supports research to improve the quality, effectiveness, accessibility, and cost effectiveness of health care.

Department of Defense (DOD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP): Supports biomedical research in specific agency-designated strategic areas.

Federal Contract Opportunities: Offers some research funds or research capabilities through a task contract with the federal government.

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Makes grants to organizations to improve and expand health care services for underserved people.

National Science Foundation (NSF): An independent federal agency that funds approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted at America's colleges and universities.

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI): Funds studies to improve the methods available for patient-centered Clinical Effectiveness Research and studies that compare outcomes between two or more approaches to health care.

California Grants Portal Grants.ca.gov is managed and hosted by the California State Library. State grantmaking agencies input and update their information into prescribed data fields to make all state grant opportunities searchable on grants.ca.gov.

Pivot™ Funding Opportunities Database
Pivot allows researchers to search a comprehensive database of over 40,000 private, federal, and international funding opportunities, as well as to save results, set automated funding alerts, and identify potential collaborators. Pivot is free to all UCSF faculty, staff and students, and training is available through the UCSF Library. For more information on Pivot training please see this link Pivot: Finding Funding Opportunities


Distinguished Achievement Awards and Honorary Societies
The EVCP Office maintains a list of links to information about distinguished honors and learned societies to which faculty can be nominated.

Limited Submissions Program (LSP)
Limited submission opportunities (LSOs) are extramural funding opportunities that either limit the number of applications that UCSF may put forward to a given sponsor or that require some kind of internal coordination. The LSP maintains a list of open LSOs and announces new LSOs through its listserv.

Postdoc Funding Opportunities 
Denis Wirtz at Johns Hopkins University has created a searchable, downloadable list, available to anyone, of funding opportunities for postdocs.

Together| UCSF GoFundMe
UCSF has partnered with crowdfunding platforms to support researchers’ fundraising efforts, and now offers a number of ways for UCSF researchers to conduct their own fundraising campaigns. Check out the Crowdfunding for Science Chatter group (via MyAccess) for more information and updates on new crowdfunding opportunities.

UCSF Innovation Ventures
To help investigators bridge their funding gaps, UCSF Innovation Ventures compiles a range of relevant funding opportunities for researchers, from traditional government sources to non-traditional sources, such as crowdsourcing and disease foundations.

UCSF Library
The UCSF Library provides access to a variety of different databases, including those listing private foundation funding categorized by study area. Visit the UCSF Library online to learn more about this resource.

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• Funding related to cannabis (marijuana and industrial hemp (UCOP)