RCMI Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus

From left: Keith Norris, Sidney McNairy and Richard S. Baker

RCMI Program Directors Meeting and Scientific Conference in Los Angeles, California.

The 1999 Annual NIH-RCMI Program Directors Meeting and Scientific Conference was held on March 28-31 in Los Angeles, California. The activity was hosted by Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Dr. Richard Baker, RCMI Biomedical Program Director; Dr. Keith C. Norris, RCMI Clinical Program Director, and Mr. Wiley Brown, RCMI Program Administrator, were the main organizers and deserve a special recognition for an outstanding conference program, which focused on ethnicity and aging in the 21st century.

From left: Emma Fernández-Repollet, Walter Kohn
and José G. Conde

Plenary sessions addressed topics such as ethinicity and cancer; age- related research in the 21st century; diabetes; cellular growth and apoptosis; public health and policy; aging and the brain, as well as telemedicine. The conference program also included a Distinguished Lecture Series presented by three Nobel Laureates: Kary B. Mullis, Ph.D., 1993 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Walter Kohn, Ph.D. 1998 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D. 1997 Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology. Among the various RCMI investigators who presented their studies were Dr. Jerry Guyden and Dr. William Boto from City College of New York; Dr. Karam F.A. Soliman from Florida AM University; Dr. Charles W. Flowers, Dr. Mayer Davidson, Dr. Shalender Bhasin, and Dr. Edmond H. Pi from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

Dr. Sidney McNairy, Director of Research Infrastructure, NCRR-NIH introduced the activity and provided a comprehensive overview of the RCMI Program, as well as of the Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative and the RIMI Program.

We thank our hosts for their hospitality and congratulate them for a memorable scientific conference!

Emma Fernández-Repollet,
RCMI Program Director
April 7, 1999

Emma Fernández-Repollet,Ph.D.

Program Director

RCMI Program

Room 621-A, 6th. floor

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San Juan, PR 00936-5067

Email: efernandez@rcm.upr.edu

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