Principal Investigators

Dr. García Arrarás is Professor in Biology who has been at University of Puerto Rico for 35 years. At different times he has held various administrative positions including Department Chair and Coordinator of the Graduate Program. He has been continuously involved in undergraduate student training via programs such as NIH-MBRS, MARC or NSF AMP and REU. At present he is the P.I. of two different R25s: an NIH BD2K training program to increase diversity in Big Data to Knowledge Centers that is ending next summer (2022) and an NIH-ENDURE training program to train undergraduates for careers in Neuroscience. Both programs have been highly successful, and the latter one is now in its third renewal cycle. (The BD2K is being phased out by NIH). Dr. García-Arrarás is not only well qualified as an administrator but has also been a highly successful mentor. He has mentored hundreds of students, mostly Hispanic and many of them women. Many of his publications include undergraduate student authors. Students in his lab have continued graduate programs in top-tier universities including Harvard, Yale, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Univ. of Washington, UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, among many others.

Contact información: jose.garcia36@upr.edu