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Bonci became assistant professor in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco in 1999. He became Associate Professor in Residence in 2004, and Professor in Residence in 2007. When he left in 2010, Bonci was Professor in Residence in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the Howard J. Weinberg Endowed Chair in Addiction Research, and the Associate Director for Extramural Affairs at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center. In 2010, he was appointed as the Scientific Director of National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA). Bonci resigned from his position in August 2019 and accepted a job as President of the Global Institutes on Addictions in Miami. Science (journal) broke the story that Bonci had resigned following a probe of allegations of sexual misconduct. This probe was not mentioned when he first departed, and the allegations of sexual misconduct were never attested.