Funding & Support
OCR and its partners invest in initiatives that create impact and amplify benefits across the broader research community: new biospecimen streams, protected time in shared labs, fresh analyses of existing data, exchange with other institutions, and programs that connect communities across Parnassus. Most bring people as well as dollars.
Opportunities
Some are our own; others come from partners whose programs we help run. Each has its own page with eligibility, what to prepare, and how proposals are reviewed.
Funded and run by the Office of Collaborative Research.
Up to a quarter of an OCR clinical research coordinator's time for a year, to launch or expand a clinical biospecimen stream.
Propose an AI tool that would speed up your research. If it fits, OCR's team builds it with you.
One complimentary review a year of a research plan from an early-career investigator outside our partner programs.
Offered by our partners. OCR helps applicants prepare and supports recipients.
Research institutes based on the Parnassus campus. OCR hosts the community manager.
Up to $5,000 for events, programs, and projects that connect three or more Parnassus Institutes.
UCSF's immunology initiative. OCR manages its CoProjects and helps run its awards.
Up to $100,000 for physician-scientists to embed with OCR or a CoLab and profile clinical samples.
Support to pursue new questions in the UCSF Data Library and build analysis tools others can use.
Up to $25,000 to host a visiting scientist at UCSF, or to support your own sabbatical elsewhere.
Before you apply
We can tell you which opportunity fits, who to bring on as mentors or sponsors, and what makes a proposal competitive. A short email is enough to start.
