Funder: UCSF - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Due Dates: Contact fellowship director for application timing
Funding Amounts: Two-year fellowship; historical first-year stipend of $50,228 (2017), with a second-year increase; MD stipends based on residency training
Summary: Mentored postdoctoral research and clinical training in schizophrenia neurobiology prepares fellows for sustained academic research careers.
Key Information: Psychology and other allied health applicants must be U.S. citizens; MD applicants have separate clinical and licensing requirements.
Description
The San Francisco VA Health Care System offers a two-year advanced postdoctoral fellowship in mental health research and treatment focused on the neurobiology of schizophrenia. Associated with the Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC; VISN 21) and affiliated with UCSF, the program trains psychologists, other allied health professionals, and MDs to become leading clinical researchers in high-priority mental health areas.
Fellows study neurobiological mechanisms underlying schizophrenia symptoms and the illness’s neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative course. Faculty expertise includes brain imaging, electrophysiology, and neuroplasticity. Individual mentored research and clinical training are combined with interdisciplinary education in academic and health systems research, advanced clinical care delivery, and program administration. Research and career mentors guide fellows in generating data, presenting findings, publishing papers, and preparing grant proposals.
