{"id":12726,"date":"2019-08-01T11:16:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute?p=12726"},"modified":"2019-08-01T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:16:36","slug":"2019-ct-convergence-institute-building-scholars-present-research-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2019\/08\/01\/2019-ct-convergence-institute-building-scholars-present-research-findings\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 CT Convergence Institute BUILDing Scholars Present Research Findings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative\u00a0provides awards to undergraduate institutions across the country to implement and study innovative approaches to engaging and retaining students from diverse backgrounds in biomedical research.\u00a0 In 2014, the National Institute of Health (NIH) granted 10 five-year\u00a0BUILD (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity)\u00a0awards.\u00a0 The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) was one of the 10 core institutions to receive the award which led to the formation of the Building\u00a0Infrastructure\u00a0Leading to\u00a0Diversity: Southwest\u00a0Consortium of\u00a0Health-Oriented Education\u00a0Leaders\u00a0and\u00a0Research\u00a0Scholars (BUILDing Scholars) program.\u00a0Under the UTEP BUILD award, there are 13 research partners, with UConn being the only academic institution in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

The fourth cohort of BUILD Scholars recently completed their summer research experiences and in conclusion of the program, presented their research findings.<\/p>\n

The names and final presentations of our BUILD Scholars are as follows:<\/p>\n

Isaac Gandara<\/strong>– Lab of Anne Delany- \u201cEvaluating Beta Catenin and Formin-Like 2 RNA as MicroRNA-29 Targets in Osteoclasts\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Isaac<\/a> \"Isaac<\/a><\/p>\n

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Diana Moreno<\/strong>– Lab of Leslie Caromile- \u201cProstate-Specific Membrane Antigen Dependent Health Disparities in Prostate Cancer\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Diana<\/a> \"Diana<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nickolas Ortiz<\/strong>– Lab of Rajkumar Verma- \u201cRole of Kalirin in Post-Stroke Dementia\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Nickolas<\/a> \"Nickolas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Priscilla Parada<\/strong>– Lab of David Steffens- \u201cSusceptibility to Cognitive and Emotional Interference in Late Life Depression\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Priscilla<\/a> \"Priscilla<\/a><\/p>\n

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Margarita Romero<\/strong>– Lab of Carol Pilbeam- \u201cProstaglandin E2 Regulation of RANKL Driven Serum Amyloid A3 Expression in Bone Marrow Microphages\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Margarita<\/a> \"Margarita<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative\u00a0provides awards to undergraduate institutions across the country to implement and study innovative approaches to engaging and retaining students from diverse backgrounds in biomedical research.\u00a0 In 2014, the National Institute of Health (NIH) granted 10 five-year\u00a0BUILD (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity)\u00a0awards.\u00a0 The University of Texas at El […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 01:28:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12739,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions\/12739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}