Local Media Cover Researcher’s Prestigious Award

As seen in LongIsland.com, The Island360, and Patch, NYITCOM researcher Maria Alicia Carrillo Sepulveda, Ph.D., B.S.N., associate professor of biomedical sciences, has received the John F. Perkins Jr. Research Career Enhancement Award from the American Physiological Society. The award allows early-career researchers to obtain special training or an established researcher to develop new skills or retrain in areas of developing interest.

This year, Sepulveda, whose research focuses on vascular (blood vessel) biology and health, is one of only four researchers in the nation to receive this prestigious honor.