U-RISE/Bridges to the Ph.D. (UBPHD)

U-RISE/Bridges to the Ph.D.

Notice: Due to the Federal government鈥檚 decisions, the听U-RISE and the Bridges to the Ph.D. are suspended for the academic year 2025-26.

If the decisions are rescinded, we will update this page as soon as possible.

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NIH鈥檚 mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. To achieve this mission, NIH substantially invests in research to improve public health; it also devotes substantial resources to identify, develop, support and maintain the quality of its scientific resources, including human capital.

Every facet of the United States scientific research enterprise鈥攆rom basic laboratory research to clinical and translational research to policy formation鈥搑equires superior intellect, creativity and a wide range of skill sets and viewpoints. NIH鈥檚 ability to help ensure that the nation remains a global leader in scientific discovery and innovation is dependent upon a pool of highly talented scientists from all backgrounds who will help to further NIH's mission.

Scientists and trainees from all backgrounds and life experiences can bring different perspectives, creativity, and individual enterprise to address complex scientific problems. There are many benefits that flow from an inclusive NIH-supported scientific workforce, including: fostering scientific innovation, enhancing global competitiveness, contributing to robust learning environments, improving the quality of the research, advancing the likelihood that underserved or health disparity populations participate in, and benefit from health research, and enhancing public trust.

U-RISE (Undergraduate) and Bridges (Graduate) are training programs supported by the NIH aimed at increasing and broadening participation of people who historically and currently members of groups excluded from engaged in biomedical research.

Grants cover partial tuition and fees, a monthly stipend, mentoring, support for supplies for participants鈥� long-term research projects, and travel.听听 Curricular and co-curricular activities prepare students for entry into advanced degree program in basic biomedical research careers.

Upcoming Events

Speaker Series

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Date	Event Details
Fri May 9, 2025	Analine Aguayo, PhD Post-doctoral fellow 91传媒, Department of Biology 91传媒 Small in Size, Big in Impact: Dfm1鈥檚 Role in Regulating Lipid Homeostasis and Proteotoxic Stress.
Fri April 18, 2025	Dr. Kathy Espino-Perez Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences Department Western Oregon University One of us?: Biracial Scholarship Applicants, Perceptions of Prototypicality, and Resource Threat.
Fri March 28, 2025	Dr. Joel Rothman Director, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program University of听California Santa Barbara Mechanisms of plasticity and resilience in two diminutive animals.
Fri Feb 28, 2025 - CANCELLED	Analine Aguayo, PhD Post-doctoral fellow 91传媒, Department of Biology 91传媒 Small in Size, Big in Impact: Dfm1鈥檚 Role in Regulating Lipid Homeostasis and Proteotoxic Stress.
Fri Feb 14, 2025	Blake Riggs, PhD Professor of Biology, Department of Biology San Francisco State University Organelle dynamics during cell division: a pathway towards the generation of cell diversity.
Fri Jan 31, 2025	Katherine Borkovich, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology University of California, Riverside Harnessing environmental sensing pathways in multicellular fungi for production of biofuels.
Fri Nov 22, 2024	Megan Martik, PhD Assistant听Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California,听Berkeley Investigating the evolution of the vertebrate jaw through a gene regulatory network analysis.
Fri Nov 8, 2024- CANCELLED	Katherine Borkovich, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology University of California, Riverside Harnessing environmental sensing pathways in multicellular fungi for production of biofuels.
Fri Oct 18, 2024	Dyche Mullins, PhD Professor, Cellular Molecular Pharmacology University of California, San Francisco How To Turn A Molecular Signal Into A Cellular Structure.
Fri Sept 27, 2024	David Thoms, PhD Cell and Molecular Biology Florida State University Plants favor commensals over pathogens via a toxin-triggered immune response.
Fri Sept 13, 2024	Patricia Baldrich Gonz谩lez, PhD Director of Strategic Initiatives & Research Funding at the Genome Center University of California, Davis Should I stay or Should I go? Plant extracellular RNA
Fri Feb. 2, 2024	Megan Martik, Ph.D. Molecular & Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley Making and mending the heart with neural crest cells
Fri Feb 16, 2024	Mayra Bamaca,听Ph.D. Developmental Psychology University of California, Merced Latinx Youth Wellbeing: Cultural, contextual, and developmental frameworks.
Fri Mar. 1, 2024	Malachia Hoover Cudjoe听Ph.D. Candidate Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine 厂迟补苍蹿辞谤诲听鲍苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟测 Characterization of a novel spinal skeletal stem cell population and signaling mechanism governing their regeneration into spinal disc tissue
Fri Mar. 29, 2024	Brady Nelson, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Stony Brook听University Reward-Related Brain Activity and Risk for Psychopathology across Adolescence
Fri Apr. 19, 2024	Roxana Coreas,听Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular听Engineering University of California, Berkeley Leveraging biomolecular corona to enhance agricultural nanotechnology

PIs

Maria Elena Zavala. Ph.D.

Ray Hong, Ph.D.

Cheryl Courtney-Hogue, Ph.D.
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