The Sandler Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, funded by the Sandler Family Foundation, are designed to encourage creative and independent research driven by postdoctoral scholars. The fellowships support UCSF postdoctoral fellows who want to explore biomedical research directions that are not directly linked to the research interests of their postdoctoral mentor, and they require the engagement of an additional collaborator or co-mentor.

In keeping with the mission and spirit of UCSF, these fellowships foster collaborative relationships between research groups at UCSF and support innovative, cutting-edge science.

The following Sandler Basic Research Fellowships were awarded at the end of 2008:

Albert Chen

BDNF-TrkB signaling and the assembly of inhibitory circuits in the developing retina

Understanding the role of NKG2D ligands in patients with recurrent glioblastoma

Courtney Crane

Research abstracts are available on the website of the Office of Postdoctoral Education

Della David

The cellular mechanisms controlling normal protein aggregation with age

In vivo analysis of axonal transport and synaptogenesis in zebrafish retinotectal projections

Filippo DelBene

Jim Fleming

New pharmacological tools to study the role of dopamine receptors in addiction

Nucleosome arrangement and the spread of heterochromatin

Andrew  Horwitz Bassem Al-Sady

Robert Jan Lebbink

Developing mixed-pool shRNA libraries to identify components in apoptotic signaling in immune cells

Research abstracts are available on the website of the Office of Postdoctoral Education

Devanand Manoli A molecular genetic dissection of the neural substrates of social attachment in the prairie vole M. ochrogaster

Galit Ophir

How social experience leads to changes in behavior

MAPK signaling regulates self-renewal and differentiation in glioma

Anders Persson

John Paul Upton

Investigation of the unfolded protein response and its effects on breast cancer

PRMT1 in the regulation of BMP signaling during Drosophila wing morphogenesis

Jian Xu

Fumiaki Yumoto

Identification of beta-catenin/transcription factor machinery from ES cell

Investigating the Function of Mushroom Body Local GABAergicInterneurons in Drosophila Olfactory Processing

Sijun Zhu