{"id":2336,"date":"2025-07-22T07:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:14:30","slug":"puerto-rico-launches-first-microbiome-research-center-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/2025\/07\/22\/puerto-rico-launches-first-microbiome-research-center-in-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico launches first Microbiome Research Center in the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2337&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Dr. Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, a pioneer in microbiome research in the Caribbean region and Professor of , and her stellar team from the Microbiology and Anatomy Depts. have secured a $11.3M NIH-NIGMS grant\u00a0to launch the <strong>COBRE Puerto Rico Center for Microbiome Sciences (PR-CMS)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 the <em>first<\/em>\u00a0center of its kind in the region! The center is funded by the NIH NIGMS and plans to bridge to other centers in Puerto Rico, broadening representation in microbiome sciences.<\/p>\n<p>This proudly places\u00a0Puerto Rico on the global map of microbiome science.<br \/>\n#ScienceLeadership #NIHGrant #MicrobiomeResearch #COBRE #UPRMedSci #PRCMS #WomenInSTEM @rcmupr[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Read more&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;sm&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-microbiologist.com%2Fnews%2Fpuerto-rico-launches-first-microbiome-research-center-in-the-caribbean%2F6196.article&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, a pioneer in microbiome research in the Caribbean region and Professor of , and her stellar team from the Microbiology and Anatomy Depts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-microbiome-laboratory-news","category-6","category-27","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/07\/godoy-cobreteam.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}