The San Diego IRACDA provides training directed at preparing post-docs to enter the professoriate: mentored research training, mentored lecturing to undergraduates; a course in organizational behavior and structure of universities and colleges, including interviewing and negotiating job contracts; grant writing; and a seminar series run by the post-docs.

IRACDA also provides travel funding to attend a national meeting each year and the annual IRACDA conference.

Questions? Read the FAQ.

To apply, please submit the following via email:

(1) A Personal Statement - this should outline your career, background, and history in science, including both experiences and future goals, particularly highlighting any interest in becoming a professor.

(2) A Curriculum Vitae

(3) Two Letters of Recommendation (one being from your doctoral mentor) submitted directly to Dr. Brunton via email.

[lbrunton@ucsd.edu]

 

 

IRACDA, Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award, is an NIH-sponsored program designed to provide three years of mentored, post-doctoral support in biomedical research in selected labs at UCSD and SDSU, and a mentored experience in teaching.

IRACDA aims especially to promote the advancement of under-represented minorities. In addition to supporting advanced mentored research, the program provides training directed at preparing post-docs to enter the professoriate: mentored lecturing to undergraduates at SDSU; a course in organizational behavior and structure of universities and colleges, including interviewing and negotiating job contracts; grant writing; and a seminar series run by the post-docs.

IRACDA also provides travel funding to attend a national meeting each year and the annual IRACDA conference.

The UCSD/SDSU program is the most recent IRACDA program funded, admitting it's first trainees in late 2003. The San Diego IRACDA program combines the research intensive faculty of UCSD with the research and teaching environment of a major minority-serving campus: SDSU, only 12 miles away. Research may be conducted at either institution. The teaching component, 3 lectures per semester, is carried out at SDSU. This intigration differs from that of many other IRACDA Programs (see Links), in which studnets conduct research for two years and then devote a year to teaching.

The IRACDA program stems from an initiative in 1998 by NIGM to develop a training program that would combine a traditional mentored postdoctoral research experience with an experience to develop teaching skills through innovative programs that involve mentored assignments at a Minority Serving Institution (MSI - http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-98-085.html). This combined program would facilitate the progress of postdoctoral candidates toward research and teaching careers in academia. An objective of the initiative would be to provide an important new resource to motivate the next generation of scientists at MSIs, thus enhancing linkages between faculty at MSI and their counterparts at research intensive institutions that can lead to further collaborations in research and teaching. Thus, the objectives of this initiative are three-fold:

  • To enhance research-oriented teaching at MSIs.
  • To increase the research and other skills needed by developing scientists to conduct high quality research in an academic environment.
  • To increase the number of well-qualified under-represented minority students entering competitive careers in biomedical research.


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