UCSF Research Development Office (RDO): Grant Templates and Guides: Home

The UCSF Research Development Office has prepared this LibGuide to support the UCSF research community in the development of grant proposals.

Please note that, while we do update these documents as necessary, it is your responsibility to verify specific information. The date of last update is in the header of each document. UCSF MyAccess will be required to view many of the documents. Please contact the RDO at rdoinfo@ucsf.edu to inquire about updated information.

The types of resources you will find in these pages include:

• Facilities and Resources: descriptions of the UCSF Campus, Schools, Departments, and other institutional entities
• Letters of Support: examples of LOS to express institutional support
• Human Subjects: examples and templates for Protection of Human Subjects, Single IRB Plan, etc.
• Project management resources to assist you in the development of any proposal.
• Resources on various NIH funding mechanisms, including instrumentation grants, PCORI grants, training (T32) and career development grants, NIH diversity supplements, and the NIH loan repayment program.

The Research Development Office (RDO) at UCSF serves at the nexus of research and research administration to promote, support, strengthen, and grow the research enterprise at UCSF. By working with faculty, administration staff, and leadership partners, the RDO seeks to attract extramural research funding, increase institutional competitiveness, create research relationships, and foster innovation. To fulfill this mission, the RDO offers the following programs:

• Resource Allocation Program (RAP) manages the dissemination, submission, review, and award of various intramural funding opportunities.
• Large Grant Development Program (LGDP) supports proposal development for large, multi-investigator project grants.
• Limited Submissions Program (LSP) is responsible for disseminating limited submission opportunities, coordinating the internal review and selection process, and notifying all applicants of outcomes.
• Team Science Program (TSP) and the Special Strategic Projects (SSP) program foster and facilitate scientific collaborations between internal and external research teams.

As a service- and solutions-oriented team, the RDO operates with integrity, professionalism, and respect for those with whom we work within and outside of UCSF. The RDO strives to act as an enzymatic catalyst for your research efforts - lowering the activation energy for effective research collaboration and proposal development.

2024 Dimensions Updates

Training sessions in October

Representatives from Digital Science are collaborating with RDO and the Library to offer an online (Zoom) training session for the UCSF community in October This training is targeted to a specific UCSF audience but others are invited to join.  Register to attend via the UCSF Library Calendar:

• Tuesday, October 15, 11am - noon

The training will also be recorded and made available to the UCSF community after the online sessions.

We encourage members of the UCSF research community to take a few minutes to try the tool, which is available at https://app.dimensions.ai/. Be sure to login with your UCSF credentials to enable the full functionality of the database.