Scientific Innovation Nights: A Year of Impact

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Scientific Innovation Nights: A Year of Impact

November 11, 2026

Scientific Innovation Nights was born with a clear mission: to create a space where doctors, researchers, scientists and healthcare professionals can present their findings, exchange ideas and connect with a community eager for knowledge. This eBook brings together the highlights of our first year.

A different kind of scientific event

Scientific Innovation Nights breaks away from traditional conference formats. Each talk lasts 6 minutes, with 20 slides that advance automatically every 20 seconds, keeping every presentation clear, direct and engaging.

What's inside

The eBook collects the speakers and research presented throughout the year, including:

- Dr. Jorge Martínez Trabal – Establishing Centers of Excellence

- Dr. Wilfredo De Jesús Rojas – Advancing PCD Diagnosis in Puerto Rico

- Dr. Gilberto Ruiz Deyá – Epigenetic Predictors of Aggressive Prostate Cancer in Puerto Rican Men

- Dr. Norman Ramírez Lluch – Early Onset Scoliosis in Puerto Rico

- Dra. María Mulero – Mentoring Puerto Rico's Medical Students

- Dr. Luisam Tarrats – Burblē: The Nasal Irrigation Experience

- Dr. Noé Crespo – Fueling Life Sciences Entrepreneurship

- Dr. Kyrsha Gorbea – Genetic Testing in Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome

- Lcdo. Jaime Maestre Grau – Hospital Administration Innovation

- Dr. David López Rodríguez & Dra. Elizabeth Pérez Román – Methotrexate Use in RA Patients and Type 2 Diabetes

- Eng. Oscar Misla Villalba – Clinical Social Network: Revolutionizing Health Communication

- Dr. Luis Acevedo Aquino – Autologous Endobronchial Blood Patch for Prolonged Air Leak

- Dr. Fernando Cabanillas – Curability of Low-Grade Lymphomas

- Dr. José F. Rodríguez-Orengo – Precision Targeting of GTPases in Cancer, Autoimmune Diseases and Fibrosis

- Dr. Manuel Ramírez González – Robotic and Navigation Technologies in Spine Surgery

- Dr. Héctor A. Vélez Cortés – Clinical Research in Puerto Rico

- Dr. Gilberto Alvarado Díaz – Improving ACL Graft Reliability

- Dr. Marcos J. Ramos Benítez – Puerto Rico at the Forefront of HPS-1 Clinical Research

Thank you to every speaker, attendee, sponsor and organizer who made this first year possible. Want to present, attend or sponsor a future edition? Write to epabon@hicpr.com.

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