UPR-Río Piedras and the NeuroID Program Receives the 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award
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National Institute of Health (NIH) honors the UPR-RP with prestigious award
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has honored the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras with the prestigious NIH Institutional Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Prize. The NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD) team announced the ten recipients of the NIH Institutional Excellence in Diversity, Equity, …
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NeuroID Students at Neuroscience 2023
The NeuroID students went to the SFN’s Neuroscience 2023 in Washington D.C. to share their research at the convention. __________ Author: Camila I. Cobo Ortíz Last week, the 17 student members of the NeuroID program traveled to Washington, D.C. to present their individual research posters at the Neuroscience 2023, event hosted by the Society for …
NeuroID Student Glen Wickersham García goes to SACNAS 2023
Glen Wickersham presented his research poster at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science. Glen Wickersham García, an undergraduate student at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón and member of the NeuroID program, participated in the annual conference of SACNAS 2023 National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM). This year, the conference took place …
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Viviana Valentin receives Gilliam Fellowships | HHMI
Our former and graduate student, Viviana Valentín, was recognized with the prestigious Gilliam graduate scholarship from the Howard Hugues Medical Institute at Emory University. Viviana worked with Dr. Gregory Quirk and Christian Bravo. She is the second NeuroID student to receive this distinction. The first to receive it was the Thibaut Pardo of the 2014 …
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Public Thesis Seminar by NeuroID Former Student
Gian Carlo Molina-Castro, Ph.D. is a NeuroID former student from class #5 (2015-2017) who worked under the mentorship of the program’s Co-PI, Dr. Carmen S. Maldonado-Vlaar at the Biology Research Center in Julio García Díaz Building (JGD-222), University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Dr. Molina-Castro successfully defended his doctoral thesis in February 2023 and …
Screening of the film “Seizing Hope” and Panel
The NeuroID Program invites you to attend the screening of the mini-documentary “Seizing Hope – High Tech Journeys in Pediatric Epilepsy“. After the film, we will have a panel with special guest, Dr. Judy Illes, from Neuroethics Canda and who is also one of the executive producers of the film. These event is next Wednesday, …
30th Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference
The biggest Neuroscience Conference in Puerto Rico is back! This year we are celebrating 30 years of supporting research in neuroscience training. The event will be hosted by the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico at Ponce on December 3rd, 2022. Register TODAY: Registration Form Event’s official website: 30th PR Neuroscience ConferenceFor more information, please contact the host:Phone: 787-841-2000 Ext. 2550Fax: 787-987-7456E-mail: cinvestigacion@pucpr.edu
Article about the struggle of researchers after Hurricane Fiona passed the island of Puerto Rico
We want to share with the community and gratefully acknowledge the former NeuroID student from Class 2013, Claudia I.ópez Lloreda, for her published article titled: Researchers in Puerto Rico struggle to adapt in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona, in the journal Science. “With an islandwide power outage, scientists lose money and time trying to recover their …
NeuroID students wins Hovard Award
We want to congratulate our NeuroID student, Gabriela Hernández, who participated at the The 39th Annual Symposium of the National Neurotrauma Society, that was held in person in Atlanta, Georgia on June 26-29, 2022. Miss Hernández presented her investigation and fell among the top 20 abstracts. Among the top, she had the chance to compete, and …