Edgardo Sanabria-Valentín, Ph.D. is the Associate Program Director for PRISM (Program for Research Initiatives in Science and Math) and also the Pre-Health Careers Advisor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the recipient of the ESCMID Young Scientist Award (2007), a Leadership Alliance-Schering Plough Graduate Fellowship (2006), and the NBHS-Frank G. Brooks Award for Excellence in Student Research (2001). He is also a founding member of the NYC-Minority Graduate Student Network and The Leadership Alliance Alumni Association.