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Former Science Trust expert calls for overhaul of R&D approach

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JAIME SANTIAGO

If Puerto Rico is going to have any chance of creating a biotechnology sector that creates quality research and independent-minded scientists for the island's biotech apparatus, the approach to research being conducted at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) must be revamped. That is where a former trustee of the Science, Technology & Research Trust, Mariano García-Blanco, is saying we have to eliminate the political ebb and flow that propitiates lack of continuity and affects the quality of research at the university.

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Fortuño Administration steamrolls the Puerto Rico Science Trust

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Ely Acevedo Denis

Recent appointment in the Puerto Rico Science Trust's Board raise questions about the politicization of this entity supposed to promote knowledge-based economic growth in Puerto Rico.

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