AUTORAS: Christine Miranda, PhD, Mentora COE- Universidad Central del Caribe; Glenda Ortiz, BS, Coordinadora COE- Universidad Central del Caribe; Edna Acosta Pérez, PhD, Líder COE- Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ciencias Médicas La Conferencia “El Suicidio en Puerto Rico: Estrategias para la prevención en poblaciones específicas desde una perspectiva multisectorial”, se realizó el 17…
by: Tracking and Evaluation Core For the 2nd time, the Tracking and Evaluation Core (TEC) conducted the annual “User Experience and Satisfaction Assessment” to explore experiences with the Alliance resources and support among users. This anonymous survey was targeted at investigators and their research team supported from July 2021 to May 2022. A total of…
The Hispanic Alliance announces that Dr. Harold I. Saavedra, the PHSU co-leader of the Professional Development Core (PDC) obtained an R01 entitled Targeting centrosome‐mitotic kinases as a novel therapeutic approach against breast cancers in Hispanic/Latinas. This is based on observations that Hispanic/Latinas with breast cancers have a poorer prognosis than non-Hispanic white women. This poor mortality is…
Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU), located in Southern Puerto Rico, specializes in studying health care disparities in Hispanic/Latinas. To reduce these disparities PHSU currently holds three U54 institutional grants, including the U54 cancer Partnership between Moffitt Cancer Center and PHSU, RCMI, and the Hispanic Alliance (in collaboration with UPR-Ciencias Médicas and Universidad Central del Caribe). …
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 the Hispanic population. The objective of the PPP is to increase the cadre of underrepresented minorities (URM), and independent investigators, by advancing their development…