UCSF’s T32 Program: Training New Generations of Leaders
Are you familiar with UCSF’s T32 advanced training program for biomedical imaging research? The program is sponsored by a grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and is designed to give radiologists-in-training and junior nuclear medicine physicians the skills required to become independent clinical scientific investigators and leaders in academic biomedical imaging. The program includes focused mentoring and formal training in clinical research, biostatistical methods, and grant writing, which takes place over one year of full-time dedicated research supplemented by appropriate core and project-specific coursework in one of four systematic tracks followed by an additional clinical fellowship with research time in the associated section.
The goal of the T32 program is to train a new generation of leaders in academic radiology with expertise in biomedical imaging research by providing a facilitated transition between residency/fellowship and academic faculty positions in Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. These individuals will play a major role in maximizing the healthcare benefits that will flow from interdisciplinary translational research linking advances in the sciences of genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics with continual technological evolution in biomedical imaging.
The Department has a long record of excellence in clinical and academic radiology, and has one of the largest research enterprises funded through intra- and extramural funding and private donors. With numerous outstanding basic scientists and clinicians engaged in cutting edge imaging research across five principal campus units, the university provides a fertile ground for interdisciplinary collaboration. The T32 program exists to jumpstart the academic careers of junior radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians and to provide the essential foundation for developing a research program as an independent investigator.
Two T32 Fellows (Residents from the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging) will be speaking on their research under the T32 grant on Wednesday, June 26 at UCSF’s Parnassus Heights Campus. Matt Bucknor will present his experimental work on MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound of bone and Yuo-Chen Ko will share his experience in performing transcatheter arterial chemoembolization in patient with liver cirrhosis and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt as well as MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound procedures after Uterine Artery Embolization for Uterine Fibroids. Learn more about Dr. Matt Bucknor and Dr. Yuo-Chen Kuo’s upcoming presentations here.
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