Research Resources

National Institutes of Health Updates
National Science Foundation Updates
External Funding Opportunities

Internal Funding Opportunities
Reaching Across the Causeway Award
By School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Medicine

Together the Associate Dean of Research of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Vice Dean for Research of the School of Medicine, the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center have come together to incentivize collaborative science by new research teams that seek bold ideas and open new areas of investigation between the schools. The program will provide one year of support for six multi-school (SOM/SVM) department teams to fund planning, preparation, and submission of team-based applications.

Opportunity Closed

Postdoctoral Scholar Resources

The Office of Research and Graduate Education has put together a Box folder containing important resources for postdocs at SVM including key campus contacts, recurring funding opportunities, grant writing training and more. 

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Statistical Support Services

Department of Statistics Stat Lab
Services include providing advice to researchers in preparing statistics-related sections of proposals for extramural funding, assisting researchers on the design of prospective experiments or studies, conducting or giving advice concerning statistical data analysis, and planning or executing statistically motivated computation. Appointments: Please visit our calendar to schedule an appointment.

School of Medicine Biostatistics Support Unit
The Department of Public Health Sciences Biostatistics Support Unit (BSU) offers collaborative and consulting services in study and experimental design, data analysis, grant preparation, and related areas. We currently provide services through the Clinical Translational Science Center, the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, the MIND Institute’s Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, the Environmental Health Sciences Center, and directly through this service request link https://redcap.link/dx2xfjrv. 

DataLab
The DataLab offers no-fee research consultations and office hours during which university members can obtain help and advice on theoretical and technical matters relating to data science and working with data and includes:

  • Developing research questions and grant proposals
  • Using Data Science tools and technologies (including open source software for research computing)
  • Obtaining and accessing data (e.g., from Web pages, APIs, databases)
  • Structuring data for analysis (e.g., relational databases, NoSQL, text search engines, Hive, Pig)
  • Data management, curation, security and privacy
  • And more

CTSC Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Program
The Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design program strengthens research plans through study design, analysis, and consultation. Expertise is available to assist in the development of protocols, statistical plans, data safety monitoring plans, data analysis, and contribute to the statistical sections of grant applications, abstracts, and manuscripts.

The program supports clinical and translational research through training, collaboration, service, and discovery in biostatistics, research design, and epidemiology, and a strong outreach and partnering function to support interdisciplinary approaches to clinical and translational research.

Comprehensive Cancer Center Biostatistics Shared Resource
The BSR helps researchers apply state-of-the-art statistical methodologies to their data analysis. Our services support basic science, translational, clinical and population research efforts. Our mission is to help transform cancer prevention and treatment strategies throughout our community. The BSR includes a master’s-level statistician and three faculty members funded by the cancer center’s NCI support grant. We help investigators through every step of their project — from design and analysis planning through writing and review.

We offer statistical expertise in:

  • Biomarker research
  • Clinical trials
  • Longitudinal studies
  • Missing data
  • Survival analysis

MIND Institute Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & Research Design Core
The UC Davis MIND Institute IDDRC Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Research Design (BBRD) Core provides comprehensive statistical support to IDDRC investigators for projects at all stages of the research process. With extensive experience on a broad range of intellectual and developmental disabilities related clinical, population, and basic science studies, BBRD faculty and staff form a key resource for MIND Institute and UC Davis researchers studying intellectual and developmental disabilities assisting with study design, protocol and proposal development, data analysis, publication of results as well as guiding development of research-related data management systems.

The Core provides the following services:

  • Grant proposal preparation
  • Statistical data analysis and publication
  • Support IRB applications and DSMB reports
  • Data Collection and Database Design
  • Education and Training

Environmental Health Sciences Center Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core
The hub of disease and biomarker research, the Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) is a liaison to animal laboratories, human clinical studies, tissue biorepositories and statistical support that connects EHSC researchers' work with CEC and community partners.

The IHSFC provides researchers with access to experts and resources in multiple colleges, schools and centers, including:

  • Biostatistics: Two biostatisticians are dedicated to environmental health and omics research, providing essential services to interdisciplinary teams, such as helping with experimental study design, reframing the scientific question into a testable hypothesis, and identifying the best analyses. The biostatistics subcore also helps interpret results in the context of the problem and grant writing, including statistical plans and sample size calculations. This approach helps weave together the strengths of each discipline to increase the quality of environmental health research and strengthen the inference from experiments, observational, and community-based studies. To schedule a consultation, please contact Dr. Kyoungmi Kim (kmkim@ucdavis.edu) to schedule an appointment.
Key Campus Units
  • Business and Revenue Contracts - responsible for reviewing, negotiating, and establishing legal, binding agreements and contracts for the provision of services and service-related transactions.
  • Foundation and Corporate Engagement - specialized central service unit that works with all campus investigators to prepare and submit foundation or corporate grant proposals, building strategy to engage with and outreach to foundations and corporations, and relationships management support. The development office collaborates with all schools, departments, and units. SVM Contact: Beverly Parayno
  • Proposal Development Services - offers extensive services and resources to UC Davis researchers to assist in the development and submission of extramural funding proposals, early career research support, project management for large team grants, and a toolbox with templates, training opportunities, and resources to facilitate successful proposals.
  • Sponsored Programs - responsible for the effective and timely handling of all research proposals, as well as preparing, interpreting, negotiating, and accepting awards/agreements on behalf of the Regents for projects funded by federal and state agencies, foundations, and other public and private sources.
  • Technology Transfer - provides services that connect research to the marketplace and is focused specifically on protecting and commercializing intellectual property as well as fostering entrepreneurship within the campus community.
  • Venture Catalyst - facilitates the translation of UC Davis research and technology to real-world application by driving the development of new UC Davis-associated ventures through collaborations, programmatic activities and outreach efforts.

We recommend subscribing to Office of Research Listservs to stay up to date on funding opportunities, core facilities, and IRB information.