Cynthia Fuhrmann, PhD
Program Director, Academic Career Development

Cynthia Fuhrmann is Program Director, Academic Career Development within the Office of Career and Professional Development, and Assistant Professor in Biochemistry & Biophysics, at UCSF. Dr. Fuhrmann leads the development of workshops, courses, and resources designed to train biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the professional skills necessary for success in research and teaching careers. She directs UCSF’s Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program (which she co-founded in 2004), co-directs UCSF’s TA training program, and coordinates teaching partnerships with neighboring colleges. She also oversees UCSF’s Professional and Academic Success Skills (PASS) workshop series, a professional development program for researchers. She teaches workshops at UCSF, regionally, and nationally. Fuhrmann received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UCSF in 2005, and her Bachelors degree in Chemistry from University of California, Davis in 1997. As a graduate student and during brief postdoctoral training, she studied mechanisms for serine protease catalysis and for protein stability using ultra-high resolution x-ray crystallography. Her current scholarly interest is in career decision-making by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the life sciences.