Sponsored Projects Office

The Sponsored Projects Office (SPO) serves as the coordinating office for externally funded research and sponsored projects within the Department of Medicine.

The goal of the SPO is to assist faculty and professional research staff in their efforts to secure and ensure proper stewardship of external funding. This is accomplished by assisting research faculty and staff with the following:

• proposal review, authorization, and submission
• award negotiations and acceptance
• account management
• close-out, reports, audits, collection
• professional development and education
• export control, and research compliance

Proposal Submission Guidelines

The Department of Medicine is committed to supporting successful grant proposal submission and ensure timely UCSD review of proposal packages. To review the guidelines, please visit the link below. 

Sponsored Proposal Submission Guidelines

Proposal Submission Timeline

All timeframes refer to business days/weeks prior to proposal deadline and exclude holidays and weekends. Once contacted, your pre-award specialist will provide you with specific milestone dates.