Congratulations

Dr. Filpa Godoy received "Best INBRE Presentation Award"

We congratulate Dr. Filipa Godoy for receiving recognition as “Best INBRE Presentation" in her session by the NISBRE 2022 Organizing Committee. This symposium hosted a competitive field of distinguished young INBRE, COBRE, and CTR investigators selected among all 24 IDeA states to be presenters. We therefore wish to congratulate all the oral presenters as well as our virtual poster presenters at this symposium for their outstanding presentations. Winners in other sessions and categories are listed below.

NISBRE 2022 Presentation Winners

Session I

Best Presentation:

Don Warner “Structure-Based Drug Design of Novel Therapeutics Against Metastatic Breast Cancer"

Session II

Best COBRE Presentation

Candice M. Brown “Tissue-Nonspecific Alkaline Phosphatase: An Old Enzyme with a New Role in Cerebrovascular Homeostasis"

Best COBRE Flash Talk:

Susan Eliazer “Targeting Wnt4 as a Therapeutic Strategy for Rejuvenating Aged Muscle Stem Cell Function"

Session III

Best INBRE Presentation:

Jason Botten “Host factors that control virus infectivity"

Best INBRE Flash Talk:

Rizwana Begum “HSP70 and proteasomes coalesce in lipid rafts and exosomes to regulate E-cigarette Vapor condensate induced inflammation"

Best COBRE Presentation:

Heather Bailey “Does prior knowledge shape older adults’ perception and memory of everyday events?"

Best COBRE Flash Talk:

Leah Irish “The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Binge Eating and Obesity"

Session IV

Best CTR Presentation:

Andriy Yabluchanskiy “Neurovascular Uncoupling as a Mechanism of Age-Related Cognitive Decline"

Best CTR Flash Talk:

Daniel Wolfson “Stroke Triage in a Rural EMS Region"

Session V

Best INBRE Presentation:

Filipa Godoy-Vitorino “The microbiome as key for cervical cancer prevention"

Best INBRE Flash Talk:

Kelsey Hunter “Altered Retinoic Acid Metabolism and Signaling in Fanconi Anemia"

Best COBRE Presentation:

Alexa Craig “Leveraging Telemedicine to Reduce Health Care Disparities for Newborns in Rural Community Hospitals"

Best COBRE Flash Talk:

Natalie Thiex “Molecular mechanisms of macrophage macropinocytosis"

PR-INBRE postdoc Dr. Ailed Cruz-Collazo won best poster at the PRSTRT Forward Symposium

The INBRE postdoc Dr. Ailed Cruz-Collazo won best poster at the PRSTRT Forward Symposium for her poster titled: “Pre-clinical efficacy of the Rac/Cdc42 inhibitor MBQ-167 in combination therapy with Paclitaxel.” Authors: Ailed M. Cruz-Collazo¹, Olga Katsara², Elizabeth Salvo², Jean Ruiz¹, Robert J Schneider², and Suranganie Dharmawardhane^1,3

Best Poster Presentation SACNAS 2022

Congrats to Travis Santana Lopez, Dr. Natasha De León student! Travis was recipient of the SACNAS 2022 best poster presentation (Title: Insights into the health risk imposed by bacteria associated with Saharan dust events through the understanding of the pathogenic pathways and antibiotic resistance genes.) for life sciences 2022!

Congratulations Dr. Suranganie Dharmawardhane

We congratulate Dr. Suranganie Dharmawardhane, PR-INBRE Program Coordinator, for her new DoD grant award on “Translational Development of MBQ-167 as Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Breast Cancer”.

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AWARD

The Puerto Rico INBRE Program congratulates Dr. Beatriz Zayas who has been awarded a grant from the EnTRUST Program of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust Technology Transfer Office.