CAPAC-Research Training Program

19/12/2025

Meet Wilfred Ferrer Fonseca, one of our 2025 CAPAC peer to peer mentors! 💜

Wilfred is a PharmD student at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. He worked under the mentorship of Dr. Carlos Díaz Osterman, on the project “Targeting Rho GTPases RAC1 and Cdc42 in advanced prostate cancer cell lines”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

19/12/2025

Meet Selimar Álvarez Vázquez, one of our 2025 CAPAC peer to peer mentors! 💜

Selimar completed an MS in Environmental Sciences at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. She worked under the mentorship of Dr. Harold Saavedra, on the project “Co-targeting of AURKA and AURKB as an innovative therapeutic approach to decrease the expression of EMT biomarkers in TNBC”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

18/12/2025

17/12/2025

We want to congratulate our 2025 CAPAC Trainee, Alanis N. Rivera Ramos, on presenting her research project entitled “Outcomes of Febrile Neutropenia Management: Mortality, Treatment Duration, and Economic Impact in an Oncology Hospital” at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting this past week! 🥳💜

17/12/2025

Meet Clara S. Santiago Rosado, one of our 2025 CAPAC trainees! 💜

Clara completed an ND at the University of Ana G. Méndez. She worked under the mentorship of Dr. Yamixa Delgado, on the project “Antitumor Activity of Diosgenin Combined with Chemotherapy in KRAS-mutant and EGFR-mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

17/12/2025

Meet Celinés Rodríguez-Acevedo, one of our 2025 CAPAC trainees! 💜

Celinés completed an MPH in Environmental Health at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. She worked under the mentorship of Dr. Rocío K. Rivera Valentín, on the project “Pediatric Cancer Risk: A regional analysis of superfund sites in Puerto Rico”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

17/12/2025

Meet Melissa Chávez, one of our 2025 CAPAC trainees! 💜

Melissa completed an MS in Health Systems at the Cedars Sinai, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She worked under the mentorship of Dr. María del Mar González Pons, on the project “Investigating IL-6-Driven Inflammation and Gene-Environment Interactions in Colorectal Cancer Disparities Among Puerto Rican Hispanic”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

15/12/2025

Meet Zinned C. Medina Nieves, one of our 2025 CAPAC trainees! 💜

Zinned completed an MS in Molecular Diagnostics at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. She worked under the mentorship of Dr. Magaly Martínez Ferrer, on the project “Predicting Prostate Cancer Risk in Hispanic Men Using Genetic and Demographic Data from the All of Us Research Program”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

15/12/2025

Meet Cristian D. Vélez Godén, one of our 2025 CAPAC trainees! 💜

Cristian completed an MPH in Environmental Health at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. He worked under the mentorship of Dr. Ana P. Ortiz, on the project “Body Mass Index and Factors Associated with Obesity Among a Sample of People Living with HIV in Puerto Rico”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

12/12/2025

Meet Emily González, one of our 2025 CAPAC trainees! 💜

Emily is an MS in Human Nutrition student at the Texas State University. She worked under the mentorship of Dr. Carlos Torres-Ramos, on the project “Dissecting APE1 Redox Function in Regulating Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Following Genotoxic Stress in Hepatoma Cells”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

12/12/2025

Meet Nicole Arroyo Feliciano, one of our 2025 CAPAC trainees! 💜

Nicole completed an MS in Biotechnology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. She worked under the mentorship of Dr. Guillermo Armaiz, on the project “The role of chronic stress on neuroinflammation in the hypothalamus of ovarian cancer-bearing mice”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!

10/12/2025

Meet Eliam L. Aguilar Rollero, one of our 2025 CAPAC trainees! 💜

Eliam is a DNP-SA student at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. He worked under the mentorship of Dr. Sherily Pereira Morales, on the project “Impact of Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Block on Postoperative Recovery within the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocol: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial in Gynecologic Oncology Surgery”.

🔗 Apply now to the 2026 CAPAC cohort. Link in bio!