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.

View RFP: Reaching Across the Causeway 2025

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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
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.

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