Professional Activities

Honors and Awards:

1978	Undergraduate Fellowship, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR
1986	Predoctoral Training Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine
1987	NASA Predoctoral Training Award
1991	National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship
1994	ASM Visiting Professorship at the UPR School of Medicine
1996	President and Founder: Latin American Council for Biomedical Research
2000	Bicentennial Medal, ULA, Merida, Venezuela
2000	C. John Tupper Award, School of Medicine, UCD
2001	Founding President of Variation Biotechnologies Inc.
2002	Co-Founder of the Sonora Cancer Research Center
2003	Roche-Syntex Rosenkranz Award

Academic Appointments:

7/03 - Present	Professor (Tenured), Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis.
7/97 – 7/03	Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis.
8/92 - 7/97	Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis.
12/91 - 8/92	Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis.
3/91 - 12/91	Assistant Research Microbiologist, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis.
5/89 - 3/91	Visiting Postdoctoral, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis.
6/84 - 3/89	NASA Training Scholarship, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

International Academic Activities

1. Visiting Professor of Advanced Medical Virology: Pharmacy School, University of Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela, July 14-25.  1997.
2. President: Latin American Council for Biomedical Research.  1995-present.
3. President: Organizing Committee, First Symposium of Latin American Scientists in Experimental Biology and Medicine.  Held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 15-20, 1996.
4. Member: RCMI External Advisory Committee for the Ponce School of Medicine.  1997-present.
5. Coordinator: AIDS Education and Prevention Program, EDUSIDA.  Merida, Venezuela.  1998.
6. Scientific Advisory Committee Member: Ponce School of Medicine AIDS Research Program, NCRR, NIH, 1998.
7. President: CLABE, Second Symposium of Latin American Scientists in Experimental Biology and Medicine.  Held in Oaxtepec, Mexico, November 22-27, 1998.
8. President: CLABE, Third Symposium of Latin American Scientists in Experimental Biology and Medicine.  Davis, CA September 11-14, 2000.
9. Member: Molecular Sentinel Research Network (MSRNET) Ponce school of Medicine, PR.
10. Conference Chair.  SILCIBIO-Nocardiae 2000.  Third Symposium of Latin American Scientists in Biomedical Research and Second International Conference on the Biology of Nocardiae.  School of Medicine.  University of California, Davis.  September 11-15, 2000.
11. Coordinator:  Cervical Carcinoma Prevention Program, Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico, 2002.
12. Committee Member and Group Leader.  Health Disparities in AIDS in the Caribbean, San Juan, PR.  2002.
13. Member of External Scientific Advisory Committee of NIH MBRS-SCORE program at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.  2003
14. Course in medical virology and immunology at Mexican Institute of Social Security, Sonora, Mexico. 2005

Editorial Board

• Symbiosis Open Journal of Immunology
• Austin Journal of Clinical Immunology

Journal Reviewer

• SOJ Immunology (Member of Editorial Board)
• Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
• The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy
• Journal of Clinical Virology
• AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
• Vaccine
• Future Drugs
• Clinical and Experimental Immunology
• Immunology
• Health
• PLoS ONE
• AIDS
• Circulation
• Cytometry
• FEMS