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BWH Researchers Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, and Francisco Quintana, PhD, are among recipients of this year’s HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership faculty fellowships.
Castro, medical anthropologist in the BWH Department of Medicine and HMS assistant professor of Social Medicine, received the 2010 Harvard Catalyst Program for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Fellowship, which provides junior faculty with additional support for clinical and/or translational research. Castro, whose project is “The Integration of Prenatal Care with the Testing and Treatment of HIV and Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean,” will receive $100,000 over a two-year period to support scholarly efforts.
Quintana, associate scientist in the BWH Neurology/MS Division and HMS assistant professor of Neurology, was one of three recipients of the 2010 Office for Diversity and Community Partnership Faculty Fellowship, a two-year, non-degree Faculty Fellowship Program for junior faculty to pursue activities that promote professional development as researchers, clinicians and teachers and will lead to their advancement within the Harvard system.
Quintana, whose research examines the “Role of the Transcription Factor Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Human Regulatory T Cells,’ will receive two years of fellowship support of $50,000 per year, intended to provide release time to conduct an individual, mentored research project.
In addition to Quintana, the other two recipients are Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital, and Ramiro Massol, PhD, of Children’s Hospital Boston.
All four fellowship recipients are required to participate in fellowship-related activities, meet regularly with their mentors and present research findings at the annual Minority Health Policy Meeting.