Early Stage Investigator Programs | UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

The BIRCWH K12 program creates an academic environment for women’s health researchers at UC Davis that facilitates their career development and encourages paradigm-shifting, interdisciplinary collaboration and team-based research approaches across our campus and beyond to advance research on women’s health and sex differences.

Combining key didactic, research and career development components to train independent and productive clinical oncology researchers, the K12 program’s curriculum is guided by two research tracks in basic/translational and clinical science. Faculty-level clinical and translational scientists near the beginning of their investigative careers are mentored in team-based, patient-oriented cancer research.

Co-developed by UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Shared Resources and Office of Education, Training, and Career Development, the Shared Resource Workshop Series boosts cancer research productivity by deepening understanding of Shared Resource services; enabling investigators to effectively access Shared Resources; and facilitating multi-directional conversations on Shared Resources’ capabilities, uses and needs.

There are six workshops in the series and the series is offered each year. First in the series is an overview of all Shared Resources followed by workshops dedicated to the cancer center's nine resources:

1. Overview of Shared Resources and Stratocore PPMS
2. Immune Modeling, Analysis and Diagnostics
3. Molecular Pharmacology and Combinatorial Chemistry and Chemical Biology
4. Flow Cytometry and Genomics
5. Biostatistics and Biorepository
6. In vivo Translational Imaging and Mouse Biology

Workshops are synchronously delivered in a hybrid format allowing both in-person and online participants to engage with the instructor(s) and fellow participants in real-time. This approach allows investigators to learn from each other, build personal connections between themselves and Shared Resources leaders and receive on-the-spot clarification .

Top academic talent from universities across the U.S. spend one to three months at LLNL developing collaborations and exchanging knowledge and best practices. Faculty leverage laboratory resources and capabilities, conduct research and advance their skills. Staff scientists and engineers have an opportunity to collaborate with faculty from around the country on their research programs. Faculty must be sponsored by a LLNL scientist to apply.