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Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion UCSF and the Department and Surgery are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Chancellor...

The Lloyd M. Kozloff Fellowship rewards excellence in research. Prior academic achievements and potential for future contributions to the health sciences also are considered.

The Pilot/Feasibility Award Program provides seed money to investigators who are attempting to launch new liver-related research projects. The program supports both clinical and basic research relevant to the liver. The goal of the program is to enable investigators to test new hypotheses and obtain preliminary...

The qualifying exam is an important checkpoint meant to show that a graduate student is on a promising research track toward the Ph.D. degree. It is a university examination with the specific purpose of demonstrating that the student is clearly an expert in those areas of the discipline that have been specified...

DFG Research Fellowships are intended to help early career researchers to conduct a defined project at a location of their choice in a country other than Germany and to use it as an opportunity to familiarize themselves with new research methods or to bring a large project to a conclusion.

The purpose of the Kirschstein-NRSA program is to enable promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientist to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research.

In the medieval ages, alchemists dedicated their lifetimes searching for the formula that would transform ordinary metals into gold. In our bodies, several cases of “cellular alchemy” have been reported. Known as transdifferentiation, this process consists of one specialized cell type transmuting into a different...

Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD is the receipient of a Discovery Stage Research Project award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The project " Preclinical development of AAV vector-mediated in vivo hepatic reprogramming of myofibroblasts as a therapy for liver fibrosis" was approved for $1...