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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This past weekend was the beginning of the third edition of the I-Corps Puerto Rico program, hosted at the University of Puerto Rico -Mayaguez. 16 teams of innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs will be participating in this program focused on driving the comercialization of innovations through scalable bussiness models. 

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A group of distinguished puertorrican and foreign epidemiologists met for two days with the staff from the Puerto Rico Science and Techonology Trust (FCTI) as part of a collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Georgia. This initiative seeks to identify tools and methods to diagnose, treat and prevent zika and other similar viruses.

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Dr. Marcel Castro Sitiriche, professor at University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez is conducting research in electric engineering in Tanzania, as part of the Fulbright Fellowship.

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