The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust: Forward Grantees Symposium San Juan, PR
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A day to showcase our grantees' work and progress, and the impact of the PRSTRT's Research Grants Program in the R&D ecosystem in the island. This year, we will like to showcase the grantees of the 1st cycle of the RFP and the SRGP grantees, in a day full of short talks (15 minutes each) and a panel to discuss the impact of the program.
We welcome grantees, students, postdocs, administrators and potential applicants. This is a very important milestone for the Research Grants Program and the grantees, and we need your support.
The symposium will be at no cost and will include light breakfast and lunch.
Agenda:
8:00am-8:30am: Registration
8:30am-8:35am: Welcome Remarks
8:30am-8:40am: Research Grant Program Achievements
8:40am-8:55am: Novel inhibitors of the malarial GST protein – from bench to a marketable drug
Adelfa Serrano, PhD (RFP-2015)
8:57am-9:12am: Endocytic Regulation of the Adhesion G protein- coupled receptors (GPCRs), BAI1 and EMR2, during Pediatric Retinoblastoma (Rb) Optic Nerve Invasion
Jacqueline Flores, PhD (RFP-2015)
9:14am-9:29am: Development of a Biosensor Microchip for the Detection of Microorganisms and Cancer Cells at the Point-of-Care
Carlos Cabrera, PhD (RFP-2015)
9:31am-9:46am: Development of EHop-016 as an anti metastatic cancer therapeutic.
Suranganie Dharmawardhane, PhD (RFP-2015)
Represented by: Eliud Hernández, PhD
Break: 9:48am-10:03am
10:05am-10:20am: Development of Advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle With Vertical Takeoff or Landing Capabilities for Commercial Civil Markets
Juan Cruz, MS (RFP-2015)
10:22am-10:37am: Inertial sensors development for Space Weather and Planetary Research
Jonathan Friedman, PhD (RFP-2015)
Represented by: Andres Díaz, PhD
10:39am-10:54am: A Scientifically Justified Interface and Sample Reduction System for Powders
Rodolfo Romanach, PhD (RFP-2015)
10:56am-11:11am: Novel Ionic Polymer Nanocomposite Membranes for Advanced Water Purification.
David Suleiman, PhD (RFP-2015)
11:13am-11:28am: Hybrid Mechanical/Electronic Steerable Antenna Array for Beyond Line of Sight Communications for UAS Applications.
Rafael Medina, PhD (RFP-2015)
11:30pm-12:30pm: Lunch
12:30pm-2:05pm: Impact of the Grant Program in the local research ecosystem
Panelist: TBA
2:07pm-2:22pm: Mesenchymal modulation and abundance of active Hh signaling in triple negative breast cancer signaling in triple negative breast cancer
Maribella Domenech, PhD (SRGP-2016)
Represented by: Dr. Wanda L. Torres
2:24pm-2:39pm: Agricultural Lab-on-a-chip device for point-of-care pathogen detection using a disposable microfluidic device and open source tools for optical detection
Pedro Restro, PhD (SRGP-2016)
2:41pm-2:56pm: Osteoinductive integrin-containing biomaterials for bone repair
Jorge Almodovar, PhD (SRGP-2016)
2:58pm-3:13pm: Butterflies for bioprospecting: The use of evolutionary theory to direct drug discovery
Catherine M. Hulshof De La Peña, PhD (SRGP-2016)
Break: 3:15pm-3:30pm
3:32pm-3:47pm: Dimensions of biodiversity in pathogens of Puerto Rican wildlife
Sean Locke, PhD (SRGP-2016)
3:49pm-4:04pm:Polymorphic Control of Small Organic Semiconductor Materials using Thioaromatic-based Self-assembled Monolayers on Gold.
Vilmalí López, PhD (SRGP-2016)
4:06pm-4:21pm: Robustness of developmental trajectories to varying temperatures in a tropical vertebrate
Carla Restrepo, PhD (SRGP-2016)
4:23pm-4:38pm: Development of Purification and Formulation Processes for Manufacturing of Personalized Medication
Torsten Stelzer, PhD (SRGP-2016)
4:40pm-4:55pm: Biocompatible fluorescent graphene oxide quantum dots for cancer biosensing and selective bioimaging.
Lisandro Cunci, PhD (SRGP-2016)
4:55pm-5:00pm: Closing