Biographical Sketch   Since its inception in 1985, the RCMI
Program has been instrumental in shifting its parent
institution, the Ponce School of Medicine (PSM), from being a
traditional teaching school to being a vigorous research center.
The institution has experienced substantial development, both of
its human and its physical infrastructure. Along these lines,
through the auspices of the RCMI Program, PSM has been able to
acquire the state-of-the-art facilities and equipment as well as
other resources that enable investigators to pursue competitive
basic, clinical, and behavioral research. Retrovirology,
HIV/AIDS, Molecular Biology, Human and Bacterial Genetics,
Protein Chemistry and Enzymology, Immunology, Cancer Biology,
and Epidemiology number among the new research areas that have
arisen with the support of the RCMI Program.  Along with the
direct improvements to the institution, faculty members are
enhancing its and their reputations by increasing the number and
quality of publications in peer-review