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Institute Investigators Receive NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award

Institute of Neurobiology investigators were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program (PI: Dr. Mark W. Miller, Co-PI: Dr. Manuel Díaz-Ríos).  The grant, entitled Acquisition of a Shared Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope at the Institute of Neurobiology will provide the NeuroImaging Core with state-of-the-art instrumentation.
 

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Dr. Joshua Rosenthal awarded NIH Transformative Research Grant

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO. The RCMI Program is pleased to announce that Joshua Rosenthal, Ph.D., from the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, teamed up with Gail Mandel, Ph.D., John Adelman, Ph.D., and Paul Brehm, Ph.D., from the Vollum Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University, to obtain one of ten NIH Transformative Research Awards.   Their High Risk-High Reward project will develop novel strategies to recode molecules to repair mutations in faulty genes.

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Research of Maria Fernanda Montiel-González highlighted by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Maria Fernanda Montiel-Gonzalez, a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/10/08/1306243110 ).

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