Congratulations, you have been awarded extramurally sponsored funding! What’s next? Post-award support is provided to PIs through a partnership between the academic departments and central-campus units. Faculty with active awards are assigned a Research Financial Analyst (RFA) by their home department to work one-on-one with them to help manage any awards and sponsored funding. Faculty should expect to work closely with their RFAs as they will often times work in UCSF systems on behalf of the PI, whether that be BearBuy, UCPath, RAS, MyReports, and a host of others.
The menu of post-award services provided by RFAs are determined by the home department. In general, faculty should expect the following:
- Regular financial reporting on expenses compared to budget.
- Expenditure approval.
- Payroll expense management.
- Facilitation for no-cost extensions and/or carry-forward requests to the sponsor.
- Coordination for final fiscal reporting to the sponsor.
- Assistance with award closeout including transfer of any residual balances.
The Controller’s Office provides a quick reference guide of the post-award responsibilities for their offices and for the RFA/PI. To determine who your assigned RFA is, please contact your department’s research manager/director.
| Department | Research Director/Manager | Contact Info |
| Emergency Medicine | Robin Kemball | [email protected] |
| Neurology | Kathleen Gardner | [email protected] |
| Orthopaedic Surgery | Gina Goodrich | [email protected] |
| Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery | Hy Levy | [email protected] |
| Pediatrics | Lekesha Ponde | [email protected] |
Resources
- As of July 6, 2025, all BCH Oakland employees were integrated with UCSF Health. As such, Work Orders are no longer needed for PIs to utilize UCSF Health clinical staff on their research studies. Guidance on how to initiate funding allocation changes for Oakland based staff can be found below. Retroactive adjustments on expenses that occurred prior to July 6, 2025 require a different process. For training requests and questions about the process, please contact [email protected]
- BCH Oakland Gift Transfer Policy and Process enables UCSF faculty to access gift and endowment monies that have been allocated to them to achieve research and other academic endeavors.
- Desk Reference Guide: Faculty-Related Gift Transfers to UCSF
- Desk Reference Guide: Cross-Bay Clinical Initiative Campus Gift Transfers
- Research Data Requests
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute provides clinical research investigators with research infrastructure, services and training. Effective July 1, 2023, the Biospecimen Processing Lab at BCH Oakland has been integrated with the rest of UCSF.