Patricia Casbas-Hernandez
Ponce Health Sciences University- Ponce Research Institute, USA
Biography
Patricia Casbas-Hernandez is a graduate from ‘La Universidad Complutense de Madrid’ (Spain) in Biochemistry, after which, she pursued her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC, USA). Her interest in population based sciences led her to peruse post-doctoral training and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at the same institution. She is currently a junior faculty member at the Ponce Health Sciences University (Ponce, PR) and co-leads the first Puerto Rico tissue BioBank.
Abstract
Abstract : The Puerto Rico BioBank: The First Cancer Tissue Biobank at a US Hispanic-Serving Institution