VA MIRECC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Science Applications to Cognitive Aging and Brain Health
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VA MIRECC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Science Applications to Cognitive Aging and Brain Health supports quantitative researchers using data science to advance understanding of cognitive aging and dementia.
Funder: UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Due Dates (Anticipated): November 2026 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Two-year postdoctoral fellowship
Summary: A postdoctoral fellowship training quantitative researchers to use data science to study cognitive aging, brain health, and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Key Information: Applicants need a doctoral degree in a listed or similar quantitative field.
Description
Dr. Kristine Yaffe and the Center for Population Brain Health lead this two-year fellowship, associated with the Sierra Pacific MIRECC at the San Francisco VA Health Care System and affiliated with UCSF. It is funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Academic Affiliations. The program trains fellows to become investigators advancing understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD), cognitive aging, and brain health.
Fellows work with large-scale datasets and pursue an original research agenda. Potential applications include bioinformatics, big data, genetic epidemiology, prognostic models, and machine learning. Research questions include risk and resilience factors, the AD/ADRD exposome across the life course, and pathways of AD/ADRD development.
