# Hispanic Alliance for Clinical and Translational Research (Alliance)

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES · 2024 · $249,699

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Hispanic participants are underrepresented in clinical and translational research studies, limiting the applicability
and representativeness of findings from many national studies. One of the main objectives of The Hispanic
Alliance for Clinical and Translational Research (Alliance) is to increase representation of Hispanics, and
enhance clinical and translational research in Hispanics, through increased participation, access to biological
samples and access to advance research technologies. The funds requested will greatly enhance the Alliance’s
biorepositories infrastructure capacity and ability to support clinical and translational research at the University
of Puerto Rico, the Universidad Central del Caribe and the Ponce Health Sciences University, and thus impact
research across Puerto Rico. It will specifically expand our ability to use and store biological specimens and data
through the acquisition of the necessary equipment that will leverage the resources of established biospecimen
repositories at participating institutions integrated to the Alliance Biorepository Network (ABN). The requested
equipment will enhance the Alliance’s research infrastructure by providing investigators access to banked
specimens and data needed to launch various studies related to systemic health, thus reducing data collection
and recruitment efforts.This will significantly improve our ability to identify and measure biomarkers and support
clinical and translational investigators in diseases that are highly prevalent in our population, such as
cardiometabolic diseases, cancer, and emerging infectious diseases. Additionally, the requested funds will
provide an increased capacity to perform more comprehensive basic characterization of cellular and molecular
processes at the single-cell “omics” level, through the use of a state-of-the-art single cell analysis system. This
will be of great value for supporting studies working with in-vitro models and patient derived cells. The requested
equipment will also allow the parent project to continue providing research support by expanding the ABN
equipment capabilities to the Alliance’s cores, collaborators, and partners.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11037171
- **Project number:** 3U54GM133807-05S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Carlos A. Luciano
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $249,699
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-09-02 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11037171

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11037171, Hispanic Alliance for Clinical and Translational Research (Alliance) (3U54GM133807-05S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11037171. Licensed CC0.

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