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Postdoc jobs at University of California, San Francisco: newly funded NIH labs that may be hiring
UCSF labs with a new NIH R01 or an R00 start, across every NIH institute. A PI who just landed a new grant often has new positions to fill, so if you want a postdoc at UCSF, these are the labs worth writing to first.
NIH award notices from August 7, 2026 to November 5, 2026 · Updated November 5, 2026
Newly funded labs at a glance
The 42 UCSF labs, newest first
How to use postdoc job leads…and 30 more newly funded UCSF labs in the last 90 days.
When UCSF labs got their new awards
By month
| August 2026 | 22 |
| September 2026 | 20 |
Which NIH institutes fund UCSF research
In fiscal year 2026, University of California, San Francisco received $822.6M in NIH awards. These institutes administered the most of it, which tells you which kinds of labs are most common there.
| NIH institute | FY2026 funding | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · newly funded immunology and infectious disease labs | $156.1M | 196 |
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) · newly funded cancer research labs | $114.5M | 169 |
| National Institute on Aging (NIA) · newly funded aging and Alzheimer’s labs | $91.8M | 151 |
| National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) · newly funded heart, lung, and blood labs | $71.4M | 139 |
| National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) · newly funded neuroscience labs | $69.7M | 124 |
| National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) · newly funded mental health labs | $41.8M | 87 |
Full funding history, rankings, and largest awards: University of California, San Francisco NIH funding.
How to approach a newly funded lab at UCSF
- Read the funded project. The abstract and specific aims on the RePORTER record tell you what the new money pays for, which is the work a new postdoc would do.
- Match one skill to one aim. In a short email, name the aim you could help with and the technique or result from your own work that fits it.
- Write early. A lab that just received a notice may not have posted a position yet. An R00 start means a brand-new lab, often with no postdocs at all.
More detail in how postdocs find funded PIs.
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- Which University of California, San Francisco labs count as newly funded?
- Labs at University of California, San Francisco whose NIH award notice in the last 90 days was a new (Type 1) R01, or an R00 award, the independent phase of the K99/R00 that starts when a former postdoc opens their own lab. Competing renewals, non-competing continuations, and later R00 years are left out. Awards are matched to University of California, San Francisco by the NIH recipient organization code, so affiliated hospitals and institutes that receive NIH awards under their own name have their own pages.
- Are these UCSF labs hiring postdocs?
- Not necessarily. A new award is a signal that a lab has new money and new work to staff, not a job posting. Many positions are filled before they are ever advertised, so a short, specific email to the PI soon after an award is the earliest way to ask.
- Where does the data come from?
- NIH RePORTER, the public NIH database of funded projects. Counts on this page refresh from RePORTER award notices about twice a day; each lab links to its official RePORTER record.
- Why are the labs blurred?
- The counts are free. The PI, department, and project for each lab are part of the Postdoc job leads plan ($59/year or $9.99/month), which also emails you new matching R01 and R00 awards daily or weekly.
Newly funded labs at other California institutions
Stanford University · University of California San Diego · University of California, Los Angeles · University of Southern California · University of California, Davis · University of California, Irvine · Scripps Research · University of California, Berkeley · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Kaiser Foundation Research Institute · Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope · Salk Institute for Biological Studies · All of California