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• Dra. Laura I. Santiago Pérez has spent twenty-four years teaching general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry courses, among other courses related to pharmaceutical and health careers in different university institutions. During her master and PhD graduate research she studied the signal transduction induced by extracellular nucleotides, ATP, through the P2Y2 receptor in its role in differentiation of human promonocytes cells and in cerebral ischemia respectively. She performed postdoctoral research working on understanding the molecular mechanisms induced by HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein gp120 and cholinergic agents in the up-regulation of alpha7 nAChR in human macrophages and the incorporation of unnatural amino acids in the acetylcholine receptor using the nonsense suppressor technique in Xenopus oocytes. She has participated of the Puerto Rico NASA Space Grant Consortium; Proposal: “Propuesta del Afiliado de UPR-Bayamón de NASA PR Space Grant Consortium 2021-2022 and 2022-2023”. She was Co-Pi of NASA Research Project,” Titanium dioxide study doped with carbon and graphene for the air purification”. And, she is performing research in environmental chemistry, monitoring water quality at the northern and southern marine reserves. She is faculty advisor of the American Chemical Society-UPRB student chapter, and she was member of the Board of Directors of the American Chemical Society Puerto Rico section. She has collaborated with Ciencia PR (cienciapr.gov) as mentor of the Program Semillas de triunfo and with the nonprofit group Arrecifes Pro Ciudad Inc.