Education and Training Programs

Fellowship Awards

This program provides funding to Post-Doctoral Scholars/Fellows, Residents, and Graduate Students from all areas of cancer research, including basic, translational, clinical, and population science. The purpose of this program is to support fellows in developing and submitting an NIH F-grant application. Fellowship Awards are generally awarded annually in the Spring.

Fellowship Awards

Trainee Travel Award Program

Established by the Office of Cancer Training & Education, he UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Trainee Travel Award Program provides travel and conference funding to UCLA students (undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs) working on cancer research projects. 

The program is competitive and open to UCLA Health JCCC trainee members only. 

Trainee Travel Award Program

Education and Training Programs Across the Continuum

Pre college/community college programs

• Pre Med Summer Scholar Program
• LAUSD Cancer 101 Education Series
• UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation Learning Board Program
• UCLA Center for Community College Partnerships
• Bruins in Genomics: Dental, Oral & Craniofacial (BIG DOC)
• Engaging Girls in STEM
• City of STEM
• Vice-Provost Initiative Program Scholars

Undergraduate programs

• Undergraduate Research Scholars Program
• Biomedical Sciences Enrichment Programs (BISEP)
• Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
• UCLA-Caltech MSTP Program
• Research Associate Program
• Girls in STEM (Cancer) Video Series
• CIRM Bridges- CSUN ,UCLA, STEM Cell Scientist Training Program
• Undergraduate Cancer Research Training Program (U54_UCLA-CDU Partnership)

Graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellow programs

• NIH F Application Workshops
• UCLA Health JCCC Graduate Fellowship Awards
• UCLA Health JCCC Postdoc Fellowship Awards
• IRACDA Program
• JCCC “Work in Progress” Series for Grad Students and Postdocs
• F32 Workgroup
• GPB Broad Clinical Fellows
• Graduate Poster Awards
• Postdoc Poster Awards
• Travel Awards Program
• CTSI KL2 Workshop
• Graduate Programs in Bioscience
• Broad Stem Cell Research Center Training Program
• Annual T32 Retreat

Faculty and healthcare professional programs

• NCI Webinar Series
• SPORE in Brain Cancer Career Enhancement Program
• SPORE in Prostate Cancer Career Enhancement Program
• Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
• UCLA Health JCCC Research Program
• UCLA Health JCCC Research Seminar Series & Trainee Work-in-Progress
• Clinical Research Professionals Day
• Shared Resources Seminars & Day 

Oncology fellowship program for residents

• Clinical and Scientific Hematology/Oncology Training at UCLA
  Trainee category: Residents/Academic Physicians
  Contact person: Ira Sarian, Fellowship Program Manager (contact via email)
• UCLA-Olive View Hematology-Oncology Fellowship
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (Requires Medical School Transcript & USMLE Transcript)
  Contact person: Gus Chavez, Program Manager (contact via email)
• Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program (Mattel Children’s Hospital)
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (Academic pediatric hematologist/oncologists)
  Contact person: Alice Del Rosario (contact via email)
• Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship (Harbor-UCLA)
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (physicians)
  Contact person: Judy Chang, Program Coordinator (contact via email)
• UCLA Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (general surgeons)
  Contact person: Sabrina Luker , Fellowship Program Coordinator (contact via email)
• Neuro-Oncology Fellowship
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors
  Contact person: Phioanh (Leia) Nghiemphu, MD, Program Director (contact via email)
• UCLA Urologic Oncology Fellowship
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (completed urology residency in an ACGME-accredited program)
  Contact person: Yissel Rojas, Fellowship Coordinator (contact via email)
• Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program
  Trainee category: Academic/Research Oncologists, Abdominal-pelvic Surgeons
  Contact person: Yissel Rojas, Fellowship Coordinator (contact via email

NIH T32 training programs

To learn more about the broad spectrum of NIH T32 training programs at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and any of the programs listed below, click here.

• UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientists Training Program (MSTP)
• UCLA Tumor Immunology Institutional Training Grant
• Tumor Cell Biology Training Program
• Molecular Epidemiology Cancer Training Program
• UCLA Medical Genetics Training Program
• UCLA Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Training Program
• Physics and Biology in Medicine Research Training
• Medical Imaging Informatics Training Grant
• Caltech/UCLA Individualized Theranostic Engineering to Advance Metabolic System (iTEAM)
• Research Training in Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Training In Molecular Toxicology
• Training Grant in Genomic Analysis and Interpretation
• UCLA Surgeon Scientist Basic Cancer Research Training Program (UCLA Surgeon Scientist BCRTP
• Neuro-Oncology Translational Research Training Program (NOTR-TP)
• Interdisciplinary Training Program in Metabolism (UCLA-ITPM)