We are pleased to share that Dr. Yaritza Inostroza, Associate Professor at the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, was one of three Puerto Rican researchers accepted to participate in the competitive NHGRI-funded CREiGS Short Course at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. The course started in-person August 12-13, 2024, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the online phase of CREiGS began on August 19, 2024, and concludes on November 1, 2024.
As an Alliance Pilot Project Principal Investigator, Dr. Inostroza is in a collaborative project with the SJBSM Puerto Rico Health Justice Center aimed at determining the relationship between trauma, ET-1 levels, and risk factors for CVD in a group of children residing in Puerto Rico. This interdisciplinary endeavor involves a team of basic, clinical, and epidemiologic scientists. Her participation in this course is part of her research career development plan. It will help her accomplish her long-term goal: to study several gene polymorphisms associated with cardiovascular diseases in the Hispanic population.
For those interested, please visit: https://www.creigs.org/
The mission of CREiGS is to train doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, residents, and faculty from academic institutions across the nation to become methodologically proficient in genome science for clinical research.
