Education and Training Programs

Trainee Travel Award Program

Established by the Office of Cancer Training & Education, he UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Trainee Travel Award Program provides travel and conference funding to UCLA students (undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs) working on cancer research projects. 

The program is competitive and open to UCLA Health JCCC trainee members only. 

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Education and Training Programs Across the Continuum

Pre college/community college programs

• Pre Med Summer Scholar Program(Link opens in new window)
• LAUSD Cancer 101 Education Series
• Early Insights into Cancer Career--Owning your Future
• Long Beach Polytech High School Program(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation Learning Board Program
• UCLA Center for Community College Partnerships(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Bruins in Genomics: Dental, Oral & Craniofacial (BIG DOC)(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Keck Foundation High School Student Cancer Internship Program(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Undergraduate programs

• Undergraduate Research Scholars Program(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Biomedical Sciences Enrichment Programs (BISEP)(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• UCLA-Caltech MSTP Program(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Research Associate Program
• Girls in STEM(Cancer) Video Series
• CIRM Bridges- CSUN ,UCLA, STEM Cell Scientist Training Program(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Undergraduate Cancer Research Training Program (U54_UCLA-CDU Partnership)(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Navigating Careers in Clinical Research

Graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellow programs

• NIH F application Workshops
• JCCC Graduate Fellowship Awards
• JCCC Postdoc Fellowship Awards
• IRACDA Program
• JCCC “Work in Progress” Series for Grad Students and Postdocs
• F32 workgroup(Link downloads document) (Link opens in new window)
• GPB Broad Clinical Fellows(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Graduate Poster Awards(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Postdoc Poster Awards(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• CTSI KL2 Workshop(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Graduate Programs in Bioscience(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• Broad Stem Cell Research Center Training Program(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Faculty and healthcare professional programs

• JCCC Mentors on Demand(Link downloads document) (Link opens in new window)
• JCCC-DGSOM Leadership Series
• JCCC-CTSI Career Enhancement Webinars
• Women in Oncology Program
• NCI Webinar Series
• SPORE in Brain Cancer Career Enhancement Program
• SPORE in Prostate Cancer Career Enhancement Program(Link opens in new window)
• Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI)(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Oncology fellowship program for residents

• Clinical and Scientific Hematology/Oncology Training at UCLA(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
  Trainee category: Residents/Academic Physicians
  Contact person: Ira Sarian, Fellowship Program Manager (contact via email)
• UCLA-Olive View Hematology-Oncology Fellowship(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (Requires Medical School Transcript & USMLE Transcript)
  Contact person: Gus Chavez, Program Manager (contact via email)
• Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program(Link opens in new window) (Mattel Children’s Hospital)
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (Academic pediatric hematologist/oncologists)
  Contact person: Alice Del Rosario (contact via email)
• Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) (Harbor-UCLA)
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (physicians)
  Contact person: Judy Chang, Program Coordinator (contact via email)
• UCLA Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (general surgeons)
  Contact person: Sabrina Luker , Fellowship Program Coordinator (contact via email)
• Neuro-Oncology Fellowship(Link opens in new window)
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors
  Contact person: Phioanh (Leia) Nghiemphu, MD, Program Director (contact via email)
• UCLA Urologic Oncology Fellowship(Link opens in new window)
  Trainee category: Medical Doctors (completed urology residency in an ACGME-accredited program)
  Contact person: Yissel Rojas, Fellowship Coordinator (contact via email)
• Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program(Link opens in new window)
  Trainee category: Academic/Research Oncologists, Abdominal-pelvic Surgeons
  Contact person: Yissel Rojas, Fellowship Coordinator (contact via email

Other training programs

• CDU/UCLA Cancer Center Partnership to Eliminate Cancer Health Disparities(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
• UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

NIH T32 training programs

To learn more about the broad spectrum of NIH T32 training programs at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and any of the programs listed below, click here.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

• The Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Predoctoral Research Training Program
• UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientists Training Program (MSTP)
• UCLA Tumor Immunology Institutional Training Grant
• Tumor Cell Biology Training Program
• Molecular Epidemiology Cancer Training Program
• UCLA Medical Genetics Training Program
• UCLA Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Training Program
• Physics and Biology in Medicine Research Training
• Dermatology Scientists Training Program
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Training in Urologic and Gynecologic Cancers (PCORT UroGynCan)
• Medical Imaging Informatics Training Grant
• Caltech/UCLA Individualized Theranostic Engineering to Advance Metabolic System (iTEAM)
• Training in Developmental Hematology
• Research Training in Cellular and Molecular Biology