Funding Opportunities

Internal Funding Calls

Bakar Aging Research Institute Principal Investigator Awards

• Through these awards, BARI hopes to foster a collaborative, foundational community of researchers and clinicians whose research propels the biology of aging field forward. Awards include: 

  1. Investigator Award 

  2. Transgenic Mouse Aging Support Award 

  3. Collaborative Projects Award (Coming Soon!)

Hillblom Center & BARI Graduate Student Fellowships

• UCSF Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging has been awarding two graduate student fellowships each year for the past 20+ years to support the training of graduate students interested in aging. In 2021, BARI joined forces with the Hillblom Center to expand this program to support even more students. 

Bakar Aging Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Support of our trainees, coupled with superior mentorship, is of paramount importance to BARI. To that end, we will support postdoctoral and clinical fellows who are interested in studying problems related to the biology of aging. 

Bakar Aging Research Institute Career Development Award (Quantitative Sciences)

• The award aims to build formal bridges between UCSF and UCB by providing support for research and career development to individuals who have PhD, MD, or MD/PhD degrees in biomedical sciences and would like to obtain training in quantitative disciplines and/or engineering.

External Funding Opportunities

American Federation for Aging Research Grant Programs (Learn More)

NIH Grants and Funding, Central Resource for Grants and Funding Information (Learn More)

UCSF researchers are encouraged to explore external funding opportunities through Pivot-RP.