# Comprehensive Anesthesia Research Training

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2021 · $96,312

## Abstract

The broad goal of our T32 training grant program is to provide in-depth research training to talented individuals
who are committed to pursuing basic, translational or clinical research focused on anesthesiology, critical care
medicine and the surgical sciences. Our program structure ensures that our trainees learn state-of-the-art
research techniques, the fundamentals of posing research questions, and the critical thinking involved with
analyzing data and reporting their results. Through hands-on mentored research and formalized didactic
training, seminars and conferences, our trainees learn to design and conduct experiments, to formulate and
write grants, to perform appropriate statistical analyses, and to understand the regulations and ethical issues
that are involved in research. We have designed our program to optimize functional interactions between
trainees and the talented basic scientists and clinician scientists that serve as faculty mentors for the T32
program in order to produce high quality translational researchers that are capable of collaborating with clinical
and basic science investigators. Faculty are organized into 4 tracks that encompass the broad areas of
research focus in the Department of Anesthesia: (1) Critical Care, (2) Genomics, Outcomes Research and
Bioinformatics, (3) Neurosciences, Pain and Addiction, and (4) Vascular Biology and Bioengineering. Each
track is overseen by an appropriate senior researcher from the Department of Anesthesia, and includes
clinician-scientists and full-time scientists that are engaged in cutting edge basic, translational and clinical
research. Faculty members come from the Department of Anesthesia as well as from multiple clinical and
basic science departments across the UCSF campuses. We focus our recruitment efforts towards outstanding
MD and MD/PhD candidates who have completed anesthesiology residencies. However, we will also
occasionally consider outstanding physician trainees from other clinical disciplines or exceptional full-time PhD
scientists, if their research and career goals directly support the mission of academic anesthesiology. We
request 4 slots per year, which is an increase from our current allocation of 3 slots. This will allow us to
accommodate the growing research trainee pool derived from our recently implemented Research Scholars
Track of the Anesthesia Residency, which is a 4-year program (PGY2-PGY5/CA1-CA4) that includes 2 years
of protected research time. We will require at minimum a 2-year commitment to post-doctoral research training
for the majority of our T32 trainees, but will encourage some trainees do 3 years of training if an additional year
is believed to be appropriate for their individualized research training program. Our T32 program is structured
to prepare trainees to become independent investigators performing research on a wide range of topics that
are relevant to the field of anesthesiology, and to help lay the groundwork for their development i...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10158479
- **Project number:** 5T32GM008440-25
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** Judith Hellman
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $96,312
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1995-07-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10158479

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10158479, Comprehensive Anesthesia Research Training (5T32GM008440-25). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10158479. Licensed CC0.

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