Congratulations to the graduate student Lorivette Ortiz Valentin for her oral presentation entitled “Differences in B Cell Activation State and Cytokine Correlations During Sepsis Process in Trauma Patients Stratified by Feeding Status” in the 42nd F.L. Raffucci Memorial Lecture & Surgical Research Forum. We wish you the best of success in your academic career.
En noviembre 4 del 2022 se celebró la Casa Abierta del Programa de Estudios Graduados del Decanato Asociado de Ciencias Biomédicas adscrito a la Escuela de Medicina de la UPR. Durante dicha actividad estudiantes de varias escuelas superiores de Puerto Rico tuvieron la oportunidad de visitar nuestros laboratorios del Departamento de Farmacología y Toxicología. Algunos…
Christopher Ayala Griffin was awarded a full scholarship to participate in a two-month summer course at Washington University School of Medicine entitled “2022 Clinical Research Training Center’s Summer Predoctoral Program. Congratulations, Christopher!
Bryan J. Collazo-Rodríguez, PhD candidate, was awarded with the New Investigator Scholarship to attend virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (vCROI 2021) and his abstract was accepted to be presented as a Spotlight.
María López Llegus, a PhD candidate, was selected to participate in the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Mentoring Network: Coaching for Career Development program for 2020 – 2021, a year-long program that begins with two days of in-person mentoring at the ASPET annual meeting. María also received a Mentoring Network Travel Award…
Sergio Rodríguez has been selected to compete in the ASPET Student/Postdoc Poster Competition with his poster: The Bradykinin B2 Receptor Agonist NG291 Causes Rapid, Transient Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Without Evidence of Persistent Brain Injury: Implications for Drug Delivery to the Brain. The poster competition will be held on Sunday, April 5, 2020, from 6:00 PM…
Janice G. Lozada Delgado was awarded an NIH R36 award to finish her doctoral studies on the effects of losartan on mitochondria and prediabetes in rhesus monkeys. Janice also was selected to participate as a Fellow of 2020 cohort of the Yale Ciencia Academy, a year-long program of mentoring, peer support and networking. Congratulations, Janice!