UCSF-Bay Area CFAR Mentored Scientist Award
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UCSF-Bay Area CFAR Mentored Scientist Award supports early-stage investigators with mentored HIV research and training to build research skills and preliminary data for future grant applications.
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Funder: University of California San Francisco
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027 (Spring cycle application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $50,000 in direct costs for one year, plus appropriate indirect costs
Summary: Supports early-stage investigators conducting mentored HIV research to build research skills and preliminary data for future grants.
Key Information: Applicants must have a UCSF or partner-institute affiliation and an HIV faculty research mentor; prior HIV-related R01 recipients are ineligible.
Description
The UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Mentored Scientist Award combines research funding, mentoring, and training for early-stage investigators at UCSF and affiliated partner institutes. It supports investigators in senior clinical or postdoctoral training and junior faculty conducting projects that develop research skills and preliminary data for future grant applications. Faculty mentors guide research planning, direction, and execution throughout the project.
Research interests span basic HIV pathogenesis through clinical outcomes, with emphasis on HIV and aging, inflammation, latency, cure, organoid models, co-infections, HIV in women, implementation science, and HIV-infected and HIV-impacted populations in the United States. Projects must address NIH HIV/AIDS research priorities. CFAR Science Cores and working groups offer assistance across clinical, basic and translational, bio-behavioral, and implementation research.
