Dr.
Jannette Cruz
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Jannette likes science because she sees it as a way of helping people through research, which is something she enjoys doing. As a researcher, she would like to find the medication that could fight diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Janette was born on April 16, 1979 in Rio Piedras, although she lives in Guaynabo. She likes to draw, paint, read, work, and write dramas for her church. She was a member of the National Honor Society at the Margarita Janer Palacios High School, and graduated with honors. She entered Universidad Metropolitana in 1998. She has been in the Excellence List for two years, and she has been a tutor in mathematics, specifically in Algebra. She has conducted research on “Removal of Heavy Metal Cations from Aqueous Solutions Using Zirconium Phosphate Layered Materials”.
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She presented it at the American Chemical
Society Meeting in Washington in August of 2000. In January of 2001,
she attended the National Institute of Health (NIH) training on
“Recombinant DNA Methodology and Special Topics in Biotechnology” in
Maryland. She is a member of the American Chemical Society and of
the UMET Chemistry Association. For her, the MIE Project has been
important. She says, “It has meant an opportunity full of challenges
that has helped me shape my character as a student and has been the
key that has opened many doors that will be important in my future.”
She is the first student from UMET to be admitted to the University
of Puerto Rico School of Pharmacy to complete a PhD.
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Dr. Juan F. Arratia,
Director and Principal Investigator
MIE Project, Universidad Metropolitana, P.O.
Box 21150, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00928-21150
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Congratulations
JannetteCruz
Our First MIE Ph.D.