Bio-Minds investigation

Hi:

My name is Jaime Jose Velez Fores and I’m currently in the Bio-Minds Investigation. I’m a student of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, in the Industrial Biotechnology Department. I’m actually at my first year of college. For those who doesn’t know, Bio-Minds (Biotechnology Mentorship Initiative to Develop Scientists Program) is a program sponsored by Amgen to promote undergraduate research in the areas of science and engineering that support the advancement of biotechnology. This is the first year of this program and we’re currently 100 students of 5 campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

I’m currently working with Dr. Miguel Castro. He’s from the Chemistry Department at the Mayaguez Campus.  He’s research it’s basically based on the used on nanoparticles. He’s working on a protein that is released in about 6 hours before a heart attack. He and his team wants to use some nanoparticles called quantum dots in order to detect the protein and prevent the heart attack

If you didn’t get it fast don’t worry, i didn’t either. But I promised i will be posting more often to get all of you informed about the investigation.