TIME ACTIVITY
8:00 AM Registration, Poster Set-up and Breakfast
8:30 AM Opening Remarks

President, Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus UPR MSC Chancellor, Deans
9:00AM First Lecture

Speaker: Dr. Robert M. Friedlander MD, MA

Walter E. Dandy Distinguished Professor, Chair of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery
10:00 AM Second Lecture

Speaker: Dr. Claudia Lugo Candelas, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University.
11:00 AM First Poster Session s Coffee Break
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Second Poster Session s Coffee Break
3:00 PM Third Lecture:

Speaker: Dr. Victor Ambros, Ph.D. Professor at UMASS Medical School. Internationally renowned geneticist and pioneer of microRNA, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
4:00 PM Fourth Lecture:

Speaker: Dr. Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Ph. D. Assistant Professor at University of California San Diego.
5:00 PM Closing Remarks and Award Ceremony for Best Poster Presenters