UCSF has received $1,152,431 from CIRM to fund a training program for Stem Cell scholars.  Four clinical fellows, six graduate students, and six post-doctoral fellows are funded.  This program will be the cornerstone of stem cell training at UCSF and in the surrounding community. Our outstanding, tightly integrated basic and clinical research community will serve as the foundation for stimulating, teaching and mentoring the next generation of stem cell investigators. Our trainees will emerge with a rich understanding of stem cell biology, both within the fundamental context of development, cell signaling and cell function, and its potential clinical applications in areas such as neurological injury and neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and metabolic disease, musculoskeletal degeneration and repair, reproductive disorders, cancer and organ regeneration. 

An important feature of our training program is its exceptional breadth, encompassing not only the range of research here at UCSF and our neighboring and collaborating institution, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, but extending as well to interested students (and faculty) at City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. The program includes didactic and laboratory-based training, as well as a thoughtful treatment of the ethical, social and legal implications of stem cell biology.