As part of our social responsibilities, efforts to fight COVID-19 continue. Testing and vaccination opportunities are available throughout the island. Community and non-profit organizations keep requesting clinics. Since November 2020, we have been testing in over sixteen communities in Toa Baja, Cataño, Dorado, Vega Alta, Ciales, Bayamón, San Juan, Guaynabo, Loíza and Vieques. Recently,…
Special Lecture: Community Based Research as the Foundation of Clinical/ Translational Research Speaker: Dr. Omar Khan is the President and CEO of Delaware Health Sciences Alliance
The Hispanic Alliance for Clinical and Translational Research has the mission to provide the faculty members with training, guidance, and support to become successful and independent investigators. Due to the nature of our services, our facility receives many people including UPR MSC employees, participants, and other visitors, and thus may pose a risk of infection…
The Alliance Leadership is very pleased to announce a new collaboration with the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine (SJBSM). We are so excited about this collaboration that we have been working on for a while and was finally made official last June. From now on, we will share information, facilities, and resources to support the SJBSM faculty in the…
La Alianza de Participación Comunitaria contra las Disparidades del COVID-19 de Puerto Rico (PR-CEAL, por sus siglas en inglés),es una iniciativa de los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud con el fin de desarrollar investigación urgente que contribuya a fomentar la prevención y educación sobre el COVID-19, reduciendo así la desconfianza y desinformación existente; logrando a su vez…
A principios de año extendimos una invitación a un grupo de líderes de organizaciones, agencias y comunidades para constituir el Consejo Comunitario de Salud e Investigación (CHRC, por sus siglas en inglés) para complementar la toma de decisiones para el desarrollo de iniciativas de investigación que aborden las prioridades en salud comunitaria en Puerto Rico.…
The Mentor-Mentee Teams’ Program is designed to help new investigators develop partnerships, skills, and tools to be successful in obtaining external funding to support their goal of performing independent research. PDC will identify common thematic research areas of interest between potential mentors and mentees and foster interactions. Mentors and mentees teams may comprise clinical and…
Purpose The goal of the Alliance Pilot Projects Program (PPP) is to increase the number of underrepresented scientists in clinical and translational research dedicated to the study of health conditions affecting a Hispanic population. The objective of the PPP is to increase the cadre of underrepresented minorities (URM), independent investigators, by advancing their development in…
Dr. Yisel M. Cantres-Rosario, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Medicine, UPR-MSC received an NIH K22/R00 NINDS Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research, which will provide funding to continue her postdoctoral projects and initiate her own research program. The study focuses on how disrupted immunological responses contribute to the…
