# MAXIMIZING THE QUALITY OF FUTURE GRADUATE STUDIES FOR UPR-RIO  PIEDRAS MARC U*STAR TRAINEES

> **NIH NIH T34** · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS · 2020 · $183,377

## Abstract

The UPR Río Piedras campus, is soliciting a one year supplemental funding from the Institute of
General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to continue the training of 13 MARC U-STAR undergraduate
students majoring in chemistry and biology who are all expected to finish their BS degrees in June
2021 and are continuing either to PhD or MD/PhD careers at top stateside universities. Because
of the new NIH guidelines on the MARC programs for institutions like ours, the UPR-RP MARC
program, after 40 years of successful training of future biomedical researchers, is scheduled to
be terminated on May 31, 2020. At this time, thirteen undergraduate students will be left half-way
thorough their training as future biomedical researchers. Our aim is for these thirteen students to
successfully finish their biomedical research training, graduate with a BS degree, and continue to
graduate school as planned. All these undergraduate students are among our top undergraduates
with considerable research accomplishments already thanks to NIH-NIGMS support. The
program will continue to require a rigorous intramural experience that involves the completion of
a specific project and an undergraduate dissertation. External experiences will also be required
because they broaden research interests, improve English skills, and establish contacts with
future graduate programs. The activities include, among others, making better use of summer
experiences, applying to graduate programs more suited to the student needs and provide
students with experiences on state of the art instrumentation, which they will use in graduate work.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10116652
- **Project number:** 3T34GM007821-40S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS
- **Principal Investigator:** Nestor Manuel Carballeira
- **Activity code:** T34 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $183,377
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1980-08-01 → 2021-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10116652

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10116652, MAXIMIZING THE QUALITY OF FUTURE GRADUATE STUDIES FOR UPR-RIO  PIEDRAS MARC U*STAR TRAINEES (3T34GM007821-40S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10116652. Licensed CC0.

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