Internal Advisory Committee
 

An Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) will assist the Co-Program Directors in the governance of the PRCTRC. The IAC is comprised with researchers and faculty from multiple disciplines from all three collaborating institutions, industry and prominent members of the community.

 

• Caroline Appleyard, PhD
  
  Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Ponce School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Area of expertise: GI Physiology/ Colon Cancer
  
   
• Melvin Bonilla-Felix, MD
  
  Chair in the Department of Pediatrics-UPR. Area of Expertise: Renal Physiology and Disease/Clinical Trials
  
   
• Luis Cubano, PhD
  
  Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Universidad Central del Caribe. Area of expertise: Cell Biology/HIV Drug resistance
  
   
• Emma Fernandez Repollet, PhD
  
  RCMI Program Director and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. Area of expertise: Pharmacology/ Insulin Receptor
  
   
• Jaime Matta, PhD
  
  Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ponce School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Area of expertise: Molecular Biology/ Skin Cancer
  
   
• Evangelia Morou-Bermudez, DDs, PhD
  
  Professor in the School of Dental Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus. Area of expertise: Microbiology/ Oral Health
  
   
• Salvador Vila, MD
  
  Department of Medicine Universidad Central del Caribe. Area of expertise: Autoimmune Diseases/ Clinical Trials
  
   
• Valerie Wojna, MD
  
  Professor of Neurology, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. Area of expertise: NeuroAIDS
  
   

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The project is supported by grant U54 RR 026139-01A1 (RCMI Clinical and Translational Research award, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus) from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NCRR or NIH.

The Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium is a collaborative project of the the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, Universidad Central del Caribe and Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences.