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FUNDING

1. Databases

  • SURF
    Search UCSD’s funding system for opportunities and campus deadline and application information
  • GrantsNet
    Find funding opportunity for training in the sciences
  • COS
    Community of Science.  Search 400,000+ funding opportunities, create and publish an electronic curriculum viate, and search for research collaborators, find an expert, and create custon e-mail alerts.
  • GrantsSelect
    Over 10,000 records with an emphasis on the Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences.

2. Advice on “How to get funding”

3. UCSD process for applying for a postdoc fellowship:

 

Process for submitting a postdoctoral scholar fellowship

  1. Complete the fellowship application. 
  2. Get faculty sponsor’s signature and any necessary departmental signatures.
  3. Get Human Research Protection, EHS, and/or Animal Welfare Program signatures (if necessary)
  4. Submit completed proposal to Office of Postdoctoral Scholar Affairs for VC Arthur Ellis’s signature.
  5. The approved fellowship proposal will be returned to you for submission to agency.

Required Institutional Information in completing a postdoctoral fellowship application

Animal Welfare Approval 
9500 Gilman Drive, # 0071
La Jolla, CA 92093-0071
Office is located south of School of Medicine in the Fir Building.
Main number (858) 534-6069
Compliance Officer: (858) 534-8257; 822-4635; 534-1594
Email: awpgrants@ucsd.edu

Please contact the compliance officer to complete protocol form.  Additional information is available on their website

Human Research Protection Program Approval
La Jolla Village Professional Center
Suite A208
8950 Villa La Jolla
La Jolla, California 92037 Main phone: (858) 455-5050
Fax: (858) 455-9540 website

Environmental Health & Safety, Biohazards Approval
Teresa Hull
Phone: (858) 534-5366
Email: thull@ucsd.edu

If the fellowship requires approval to work with Biohazards or recombinant DNA, complete the form at http://www-ehs.ucsd.edu/bio/Agency_request_form.doc and indicate your sponsor’s current IBC approval (Institutional Biosafety Committee).
    


DUNS Number
  • 80-435-5790

Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) Number
  • 95-6006-144


Checks should be made out to: The Regents of the University of California

Checks should be mailed to:

  • University of California, San Diego
    Office of Post Award Financial Services (OPAFS)
    9500 Gilman Drive, #0954
    La Jolla, CA 92093-0954

Congressional District for UCSD
  • 53

This information is also available at the Office of Contracts and Grant web site

Postdoctoral Positions and Opportunities

Departmental job links:

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