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The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and San Francisco State University (SFSU) have a career development program, Professors of the Future (PROF) Program http://prof.ucdavis.edu/, for biomedical science postdoctoral scholars who are preparing for faculty careers in academia. This cooperative program, between a research university and a minority-serving university, provides mentored research (primarily at UC Davis), mentored teaching experiences (primarily at SFSU) and other career development activities (workshops, short courses, application and survival skills needed for an academic position).

Goals of the PROF Program are:

1) To successfully integrate each segment of the career development activities at the two universities into a unified postdoctoral experience, with the ultimate goal of making participants optimally prepared and more competitive for faculty positions.

2) To facilitate the progress of postdoctoral scholars toward research and teaching careers in academia with a goal of increasing the numbers of optimally prepared faculty at minority serving educational institutions.

3) To encourage students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the biomedical sciences to seek advanced degrees.

4) To improve teaching and research at SFSU by contributions from PROF Program scholars and from collaborations between faculty at the two universities.

Funded in part by NIGMS grant K12 GM00679.