Aug 9, 2017 | Community Engagement Core, Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Team
PROTECT Trainee Nancy Cardona-Cordero Receives KC Donnelly Externship Nancy Cardona-Cordero, PROTECT trainee at the University of Puerto Rico, has been honored with a K.C. Donnelly Externship Award Supplement, which provides funding to Superfund Research Program...
Mar 1, 2017 | Community Engagement Core, Events, Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Team
As part of the 2017 Annual Retreat, PROTECT and CRECE held a ceremony to honor the Federally Qualified Community Health Centers and other community partners that have been instrumental in advancing both centers’ work in Puerto Rico. The ceremony, which was held on...
Jan 31, 2017 | Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Team
As the new year kicks off, the PROTECT team continues strong participant recruitment of pregnant women in the karst region of Puerto Rico. The study recruitment and consecutive follow-up appointments work towards the goal of understanding environmental exposure and...
Oct 7, 2015 | Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Team
PROTECT is proud to announce that Co-Director and Core C Leader Cordero has been named the first Patel Distinguished Professor in Public Health at the University of Georgia in Atlanta, GA where he will head its Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The Patel...
Aug 3, 2015 | Community Engagement Core, Events, Human Subjects & Sampling Core
On June 28, 2015, PROTECT partnered with the March of Dimes Puerto Rico chapter for the “March for Babies” in San Juan, Puerto Rico to raise awareness of preterm birth on the island. PROTECT Co-Director, Dr. José F. Cordero and Core C Director, Dr. Liza...
May 7, 2015 | Human Subjects & Sampling Core, PROTECT Team
Human Subjects Core trainee Andrea L. González (Advisor: Jose Cordero) started her externship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia with Victor De Jesus, Ph.D., Chief of the Biochemical Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in the Newborn...