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RUM graduate named presidential professor at UPenn

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José Arturo Bauermeister had been appointed as a Presidental Professor at UPenn, this position arises from the Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence that seks to recruit and retain professors with exceptional trayectories in order to promote Faculty diversity. Dr. Bauermeister graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Department of Social Sciences where he investigated the stigma associated with communities affected by HIV. 

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First phase in HIV vaccine project is completed

Submitted on 17 April 2016 - 4:50pm

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Keila López Alicea

The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is actively engaged in the race to develop a vaccine against HIV. In just 18 month, researchers from the Molecular Sciences Research Center at UPR have succesfully completed the first phase of a project to develop an HIV vaccine and are waiting for NIH aproval to begin the second phase. 

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Early antiretroviral therapy prevents complications in HIV patients

Submitted on 22 September 2015 - 11:52am

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A research study conducted by the Medical Sciences Campus at the University of Puerto Rico concludes that early antiretroviral therapy prevents complications in HIV patients.

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PRCoNCRA to host annual conference about HIV/AIDS

Submitted on 14 September 2015 - 10:22pm

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The organization Puerto Rico Community Network for Clinical Research on Aids (PR CoNCRA) will host annual conference avout HIV/AIDS on September 19, 2015 at the Hotel Ritz Carlton in Isla Verde, starting at 7:00 a.m.

 

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Student develops program to educate about Hepatitis C

Submitted on 17 July 2015 - 11:04am

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Jessenia Zayas, student at the Medical Sciences Campus at the University of Puerto Rico developed a program to educate about Hepatitis C as part of her masters work. 

To learn more about the program email jessenia.zayas@upr.edu, gdavila@iniciativacomunitaria.org or call 787 758-2525.

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Zero mother to child transmission of HIV in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 7 July 2015 - 6:45pm

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The have been no reports of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Puerto Rico since 2011, announced Dr. Carmen Zorrilla, director of the Center of Mother-Child Studies of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

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UPR part of key collaboration for the fight against HIV

Submitted on 10 September 2014 - 1:45pm

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The University of Puerto Rico will be a key partner in a collaboration to develop a vaccine against HIV, together with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and CDI Labs, and with the support of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company and the National Insitute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

 

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HIV in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 26 June 2013 - 10:53pm

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Celeste Rodríguez Colón / Especial para Por Dentro

Compared with the United States, Puerto Rico is one of the regions with the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS.

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30 years since the discovery of HIV (I)

Submitted on 15 May 2013 - 3:49pm

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A group of scientists have been conducting research on VIH transmission at RCM since 1986 .

 

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30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV

Submitted on 8 May 2013 - 10:30am

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This article summarizes the contributions of the Virology Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico's Medical Sciences Campus to the understanding of the HIV virus.

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