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Ricardo Rosselló Nevares
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Personal details
Born
Ricardo Antonio Rosselló Nevares

(1979-03-07) March 7, 1979 (age 45)
Puerto Rico
Political partyNew Progressive Party of Puerto Rico Democratic Party of the United States
Parent(s)Pedro Rosselló
Maga Neváres
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan
Occupationassistant professor and researcher

Ricardo Antonio "Ricky" Rosselló Nevares[a] (born March 7, 1979) is a college professor, scientist and political advocate who is a candidate for the New Progressive Party nomination for Governor of Puerto Rico in the 2016 elections. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan, Rosselló is the son of former Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Rosselló.[1][2]

In 2010, Rosselló founded the political advocacy group Boricua Ahora Es, which supports a change in the political status of Puerto Rico. After several years of political advocacy, on September 20, 2015 Rosselló announced he would seek the New Progressive Party's nomination for Governor of Puerto Rico at a rally in the Roberto Clemente Coliseum.[3]

Early life and education

Rosselló was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Pedro Rosselló, a doctor, and Maga Nevares. Rosselló attended Colegio Marista and during his high school years, was an athlete, 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.[4]

After graduation, Rosselló worked as a researcher at Duke University. His work in the stem cell research area has been subject of several wars, including the Biomaterials Conference STAR Award. Rosselló's works has been published in several academic journals, including the Communicative & Integrative Biology Journal and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.[4]

Political career

Rosselló 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 on the cover [5] of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America[6] and ELife[7] and highlighted in The Scientist [8] and Nature Methods.[9]

A Democrat, he was a Clinton delegate to the 2008 nominating convention and an Obama delegate to the 2012 convention. In 2008, he had a key role in Hillary Clinton's get-out-the-vote efforts for the June 1 Puerto Rico presidential primary, appearing in her final TV ad with Democratic State Chair Roberto Prats, PDP leader José Alfredo Hernández Mayoral and then-Senate President Kenneth McClintock. Clinton won the primary by a 68-32% margin.

In 2012, Rosselló founded Boricua ¡Ahora Es!, a political advocacy movement that advocates statehood for Puerto Rico. The movement features a grass-roots educational campaign,[10] suggesting that involvement of the international community may be necessary for the United States government to take action.[11]

Since 2012, Rosselló started being mentioned as a potential gubernatorial candidate for the 2016 election cycle.[12][13][14][15][16] On September 19, 2015, he confirmed his intention to run for Governor of Puerto Rico in the upcoming 2016 elections,[17] and held a campaign rally the next day at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan. At the rally, he endorsed Jenniffer González, a Republican, for Resident Commissioner.[18]

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.[19] There was no open call for the position, which some have taken as a custom-made position to facilitate his political career.[20] 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.[21]

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.[22] In January 2014, Rosselló revealed that he had quit from the UPR job to start a new post at a private university.[23]

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.[24] It seems that Dr. Fernández Viña is selling unproven stem cell treatments and that his few publications do not exist.[24] This type of clinic has been denounced as scams by stem cell researchers, since very few treatments have been proven to work.[25]

Personal life

Rossello married Beatriz Isabel in 2012. They have a daughter together, Claudia, born on August 21, 2014.[26]

Notes

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References

  1. ^ "Ricardo Rosselló gets UPR posting". Caribbean Business. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  2. ^ [1] [dead link]
  3. ^ "Ricky Rossello y Jennifer GOonzalez se presentan juntos". El Nuevo Dia. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Un mejor Puerto Rico es posible". Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  5. ^ ""Cover, PNAS August 2009"". Pnas.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Connexin 43 as a signaling platform for increasing the volume and spatial distribution of regenerated tissue". Pnas.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  7. ^ "Mammalian genes induce partially reprogrammed pluripotent stem cells in non-mammalian vertebrate and invertebrate species" (PDF). Elife.elifesciences.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  8. ^ [2] [dead link]
  9. ^ Eisenstein M. "A well-preserved program". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  10. ^ Info del autor Yennifer Álvarez Jaimes, EL VOCERO. "Ricky Rosselló quiere ganarse el apoyo del pueblo". Vocero.com. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  11. ^ [3] [dead link]
  12. ^ "Ricky Rosselló anhela entrar a la política". Elnuevodia.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  13. ^ "Rosselló hijo no dice si aspirará a escaño de Crespo". Vocero.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  14. ^ "Posible la candidatura de Ricky Rosselló para el 2012". Elexpresso.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  15. ^ "Hijo de Rosselló niega que haya lanzado candidatura a comisionado residente". Elnuevodia.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  16. ^ "Junte PNP mide fuerzas y aprueba reglamento". Elvocero.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  17. ^ Suárez, Lymaris (19 September 2015). "Confiado Ricardo Rosselló en su capacidad intelectual". El Nuevo Día. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  18. ^ "Ricky Rosselló y Jenniffer González se presentan juntos". El Nuevo Dia. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  19. ^ Llorens Vélez, Eva. "Para Ricky Rosselló sí hay trabajo en la UPR". Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  20. ^ Martínez Maldonado, Manuel. "El escándalo de Ricky Rosselló". 80 Grados. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  21. ^ Díaz Torres, Rafael R. "Ricardo Rosselló aún en el limbo universitario, pero cobra". Noticel. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  22. ^ "Duke Neurobiology / Faculty / Jarvis". Neuro.duke.edu. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  23. ^ ""Ricky" Rosselló renuncia como profesor de la UPR". Metro. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  24. ^ a b "La mafia de las células madres". 80Grados.net. 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
  25. ^ "Cracking Down on Stem Cell Tourism". Science Based Medicine. 2010-06-23. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
  26. ^ "Ricky Roselló comparte foto de su boda en Facebook". Metro.pr. 11 November 2012.

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