Oncology

Prostate Cancer Career Development Program

The Prostate Cancer Center is dedicated to the discovery and evolution of new ideas and information about cancer, from the research to the clinical implementation phases of cancer control. The career development program provides research training opportunities for medical, urological, and radiation oncologists; and recent graduates of PhD programs. Funding is provided for up to two years. Program members are listed below:

Tumor Immunology Marcella Fasso, PhD Larry Fong, MD, PhD James Marks, PhD, MD Eric Small, MD Experimental Therapeutics Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD Jonathan Ellman, PhD Robert Fletterick, PhD James Marks, MD, PhD Frank McCormick, PhD Charles Ryan, MD Eric Small, MD Imaging Technology: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Fergus Coakley, MD John Kurhanewicz, PhD Daniel Vigneron, PhD Imaging Technology: Positron Emission Tomography Henry van Brocklin, PhD Cancer Genetics Colin Collins, PhD John Witte, PhD

Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD Charles Craik, PhD Marc Diamond, MD Robert Fletterick, PhD Douglas Hanahan, PhD Davide Ruggero, PhD Marc Shuman, MD Zena Werb, PhD Animal Models Douglas Hanahan, PhD Epidemiology, Cancer Communications Research June Chan, ScD Joan Hilton, ScD, MPH Rena Pasick, PhD John Witte, PhD Outcomes Research Peter Carroll, MD Mack Roach, III, MD Jonathan Rosenberg, MD Charles Ryan, MD Eric Small, MD Joycelyn Speight, MD, PhD

For information on the UCSF Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit http://cancer.ucsf.edu.

Application Process

The purpose of this program is to assist exceptionally talented postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty in establishing their academic and scientific careers in prostate cancer research. Funding provides salary support and helps to establish strong mentoring relationships for postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. Successful fellows will use the funding to launch a career in academia, either as a research or clinical scientist, at the faculty level. Successful junior faculty will use this opportunity to develop a research program well supported by extramural funding.

Postdoctoral applicants must be at UCSF or UC Berkeley and should have a PhD and/or MD and experience in one of the areas mentioned above. Salaries range from $25,000 to $50,000 depending on experience.

Prior to submitting a formal application interested applicants should contact the Development Program Director, Marc Shuman, MD, to complete a pre-application review. Applicants should allow sufficent time to schedule and complete this process in advance of the formal application deadline. 2008/09 applications are due on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.

The formal application will include an application form, a curriculum vitae, a brief statement of research interest and letters of reference. The complete instructions and application form should be downloaded and reviewed prior to scheduling a pre-application consultation using the links below:

Instructions in Word (program description and directions for submitting an application)

Application form in Excel (required forms)

Current Fellows

Andrea Harzstark, MD
Clinical Fellow, Hematology and Oncology
Prostate Cancer Fellow, 2007-2008
Project: Radiation therapy and anti-CTLA-4 (Ipilimumab) in patients with hormone refractory prostate cancer metastatic to bone

Current Junior Faculty

Cassandra Belair, PhD
Assistant Researcher, Urology
Prostate Cancer Fellow, 2007-2008
Career Development Fundee, 2006-2008
Project: Isolating and characterizing human prostate and prostate cancer stem cells

Fellows Trained

Matthew Cooperberg, MD
Chief Resident, Urology
Prostate Cancer Fellow, 2001-2002
Project: Use of phage display libraries to develop fully human, prostate tumor-specific antibodies for targeted diagnostics and therapeutics

Tracy Downs, MD
Assistant Professor, Urology; University of California, San Diego
Prostate Cancer Fellow, 2001-2002
Project: Gene expression in tissue obtained at the time of diagnostic prostate biopsy, and in serial prostate biopsies for active surveillance

Eva Estébanez-Perpiñá, PhD
Ramon y Cajal Fellow, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Prostate Cancer Research Fellow, 2003-2006
Project: Characterizing the structural interfaces between the androgen receptor and nuclear co-factor, and discovery of small molecule inhibitors

Marcella Fassò, PhD
Assistant Researcher, Urology
Prostate Cancer Fellow, 2003-2005
Project: Identification and characterization of novel prostatic antigens (SPAS-1)

Natalia Jouravel, MD
Associate Specialist, Biochemistry and Biophysics; University of California, San Francisco
Prostate Cancer Fellow, 2005-2006
Project: Antiandrogens Targeting Androgen Receptor Folding

Maxwell Meng, MD
Associate Professor, Urology
Prostate Cancer Fellow, 2002-2003
Project: Utility of altered telomerase in cancer therapeutics

Pamela Paris, PhD
Associate Researcher, Urology
Prostate Cancer Fellow, 2001-2003
Project: Optimization of the array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) technique which provides tumor genome copy number information.

Junior Faculty Trained

June Chan, ScD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Urology
Career Development Fundee, 2000-2003
Project: Nutritional Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer

Lawrence Fong, MD
Assistant Professor, Hematology Oncology
Career Development Fundee, 2004-2005
Project: Characterization of the immune response within prostate cancer tissue in men treated with immunotherapy, and defintion of the immune response induced against tumor tissues

Christopher Haqq, MD, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Urology
Career Development Fundee, 2000-2003
Project: Gene Expression Analysis of Prostate Cancer

Joycelyn Speight, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology and Urology
Career Development Fundee, 2002-2003
Project: Treatment outcomes and novel treatment paradigms

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Faculty

Peter Carroll, MD
Professor and Chair, Urology
Assistant email: jdeming@urology.ucsf.edu

Marc Shuman, MD
Development Program Director
Email: shuman@medicine.ucsf.edu

Mack Roach, III, MD
Career Development Program Co-director
Email: mroach@radonc.ucsf.edu

Key Staff

Malinda Walker
Program Administrator
Prostate Cancer Developmental Program
Email: mwalker@urology.ucsf.edu

Contact Number

For more information about applying to the Prostate Cancer Fellowship please contact mwalker@urology.ucsf.edu.