VA MIRECC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Dementia & Brain Health Research
Forecasted
VA MIRECC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Dementia & Brain Health Research supports emerging clinical researchers through mentored research and clinical training to advance work on dementia, cognitive aging, and brain health.
Funder: UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Due Dates (Anticipated): November 2026 (application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Two-year fellowship
Summary: A postdoctoral fellowship training clinical researchers in dementia, cognitive aging, brain health, and geriatric neuropsychiatry.
Key Information: Fellows devote 75% of their time to research and education and 25% to clinical training.
Description
This two-year fellowship is led by Dr. Kristine Yaffe and the Center for Population Brain Health. Funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Academic Affiliations, it is associated with the Sierra Pacific MIRECC at the San Francisco VA Health Care System and affiliated with UCSF. Its goal is to develop clinical researchers in Alzheimer disease and related dementias, cognitive aging, brain health, and geriatric neuropsychiatry.
With mentorship and opportunities to collaborate with VA and UCSF investigators, fellows design and conduct research, prepare manuscripts and conference presentations, and contribute to grant development. Potential projects address social determinants of brain health and modifiable factors such as traumatic brain injury, PTSD, depression, cardiovascular risk factors, and sleep.
