David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Oppenheimer Program

Program Goals

The overriding goal of the Oppenheimer Program is to provide seed money for worthwhile projects in health sciences at UCLA, for which alternative sources of funding are not readily available. These modest seed grants support innovative projects that are in initial stages of development. The Oppenheimer Program is administered by the Senior Associate Dean for Research in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The online application is available now! CLICK HERE.


Requirements:

The application package must include:

  • Layman (300 characters) and Scientific summary (600 characters)
  • Budget
  • 5 page research description
  • References & appendix (if needed but can be on a separate page)
  • 5 possible reviewers who are not in your department and with whom you have not collaborated within the last 3 years



The Seed Grants

There are five separate seed grant programs under the Oppenheimer Program:

  1. Stein/Oppenheimer Endowment Awards
  2. UCLA CTSI Scholars Program
  3. Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation Center for the Prevention of Eye Disease Program
  4. Seed Grant Program in Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine (CAIM)
  5. Harvey L. Karp Discovery Awards at UCLA

A single application process is used for all five programs. Faculty may submit only one application each year. Faculty who are funded by the Oppenheimer Program must wait two years before submitting another grant application.