# Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · 2020 · $193,899

## Abstract

Project Abstract
The University of California, Irvine's (UCI) Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program is requesting continued
support for the Fellowship Training Program, which has been operating for over 30 years, and has been
supported for 20 years by this T32 grant. The training grant is administered by UCI's Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology and Division of Gynecology Oncology. The Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program is
dedicated to training physician scientists in the sub-specialty of Gynecologic Oncology by providing multiple
levels of interaction between basic and clinical scientists to facilitate the transfer and exchange of information.
The Fellowship Program provides trainees with opportunities for the practical application of skills in the design
and testing of scientific hypotheses. Trainees receive two years of laboratory research training in the basic
sciences followed by two years of clinical training, with a focus on clinical/translational research.
There are twenty faculty mentors, made up of basic scientists and clinical researchers from eleven
departments in the School of Biological Sciences and School of Medicine. Faculty Mentors have research
concentrations in the following areas: tumor angiogenesis, developmental therapeutics, experimental medicine,
oncologic signal transduction pathways, carcinogenesis, psycho-social and neuro-immunologic function,
epidemiology and healthcare disparities, survivorship medicine, and in-vivo functional onco-imaging. All of the
training faculty have active, peer-reviewed research grants directly relevant to cancer research, or cancer-
related.
Competition is keen for the one or two available entry-level Fellowship positions annually. Recruitment for the
Fellowship Program draws from the 1,200 Obstetrics and Gynecology senior residents nationwide. Over 95%
of the graduates from the UC Irvine Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program have assumed academic
faculty positions (see Table 12B). Training features of the program include didactic coursework in the areas of
responsible conduct of research, biostatistics and epidemiology, fundamentals of gynecologic oncology,
evidence-based medicine in gynecologic oncology, and cancer-related electives, national scientific meetings,
and numerous other multi-disciplinary seminars, lectures and symposia.
Support is requested for three Postdoctoral Fellowship positions in each year of the grant. Fellows will be
supported by funds from the training grant for the first two years, with supplemental support from the
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology will fully support
fellows in years three and four of their training.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10013128
- **Project number:** 5T32CA060396-25
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Robert Edward Bristow
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $193,899
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1994-09-26 → 2021-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10013128

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10013128, Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program (5T32CA060396-25). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10013128. Licensed CC0.

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