Ricardo Rosselló
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Ricardo "Ricky" Rosselló | |
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| File:Ricky-rossello.jpg | |
| President Boricua Ahora Es | |
| Assumed office 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ricardo Antonio Rosselló Nevares March 7, 1979 Puerto Rico |
| Political party | New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico Democratic Party of the United States |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan |
| Occupation | assistant professor and researcher |
Ricardo Antonio "Ricky" Rosselló Nevares[a] (born March 7, 1979) is a college professor, political advocate and lobbyist from Puerto Rico who founded and presides Boricua Ahora Es.[1][2] Rosselló is the youngest son of Pedro Rosselló, a former governor of Puerto Rico in the last decade of the 20th century. He is also a candidate for the 2016 New Progressive Party gubernatorial primaries, challenging Pedro Pierluisi, current president of the party, incumbent resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, and member of Congress.[citation needed]
Early life
Rosselló was an athlete during his high school years, during which he was a three-time junior tennis champion in Puerto Rico and the first Puerto Rican to be selected to the International Mathematical Olympiads. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and economics, and a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan. As a researcher in college, Rosselló focused on adult stem cell research and worked on the Human Genome Project. He also traveled to his native Puerto Rico where he assisted in research to develop the Tren Urbano.
[3][4][5][6] As of February 2014, he is being mentioned as a potential gubernatorial candidate for the 2016 election cycle.[7] He is immersed in a grass-roots educational campaign favoring statehood for Puerto Rico,[8] suggesting that involvement of the international community may be necessary for the United States government to take action.[9]
He is a political commentator who currently writes a regular column for El Vocero, a daily newspaper published in San Juan, on topics including politics, science, healthcare and the economy. His scientific research has been published in the cover [10] of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America[11] and ELife[12] and highlighted in The Scientist [13] and Nature Methods. [14]
Controversies
During August 2012, Rosselló got involved in a controversy when given a position at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.[15] There was no open call for the position, which some have taken as a custom-made position to facilitate his political career.[16] Even after having a paycheck since August 2012, on September 17 it was revealed Dr. Rosselló was not assigned to a particular unit on campus, since the Institute of Neurobiology did not accept his appointment.[17]
Prior to his appointment at UPR, he served as a post-doctoral neuroscience and tissue engineering researcher in the lab of Erich Jarvis at Duke University.[18] In January 2014, Rosselló revealed that he had quit from the UPR job to start a new post at a private university.[19]
Rosselló has also been questioned on his association with Dr. Roberto Fernández Viña, who has clinics that offer stem cell treatments in Argentina, El Salvador, Peru, Mexico, and Panama.[20] It seems that Dr. Fernández Viña is selling unproven stem cell treatments and that his few publications do not exist.[20] This type of clinic has been denounced as scams by stem cell researchers, since very few treatments have been proven to work.[21]
Notes
References
- ^ "Ricardo Rosselló gets UPR posting". Caribbean Business. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ "Ricky Rosselló anhela entrar a la política". Elnuevodia.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ "Rosselló hijo no dice si aspirará a escaño de Crespo". Vocero.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ "Posible la candidatura de Ricky Rosselló para el 2012". Elexpresso.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ "Hijo de Rosselló niega que haya lanzado candidatura a comisionado residente". Elnuevodia.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ "Junte PNP mide fuerzas y aprueba reglamento". Elvocero.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ Info del autor Yennifer Álvarez Jaimes, EL VOCERO. "Ricky Rosselló quiere ganarse el apoyo del pueblo". Vocero.com. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ [2] [dead link]
- ^ ""Cover, PNAS August 2009"". Pnas.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ ""Connexin 43 as a signaling platform for increasing the volume and spatial distribution of regenerated tissue"". Pnas.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ ""Mammalian genes induce partially reprogrammed pluripotent stem cells in non-mammalian vertebrate and invertebrate species"" (PDF). Elife.elifesciences.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ [3] [dead link]
- ^ Eisenstein M. ""A well-preserved program"". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ Llorens Vélez, Eva. "Para Ricky Rosselló sí hay trabajo en la UPR". Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ Martínez Maldonado, Manuel. "El escándalo de Ricky Rosselló". 80 Grados. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ Díaz Torres, Rafael R. "Ricardo Rosselló aún en el limbo universitario, pero cobra". Noticel. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ "Duke Neurobiology / Faculty / Jarvis". Neuro.duke.edu. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ ""Ricky" Rosselló renuncia como profesor de la UPR". Metro. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ a b "La mafia de las células madres". 80Grados.net. 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ^ "Cracking Down on Stem Cell Tourism". Science Based Medicine. 2010-06-23. Retrieved 2013-07-06.