Assoc. Prof. Marilyn G. Rimando, PhD, an Academic Staff of the Department of Biological Sciences of the College of Science and Supervising Scientist of the Roque Laboratories of the UST Graduate School, was awarded by the prestigious J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a Fulbright Visiting Scholar fellowship from April to August 2024. Dr. Rimando will be conducting research and undergoing pedagogy training at the School of Natural Sciences of the University of California – Merced in the laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Manilay, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a renowned Developmental Immunologist.
Dr. Rimando, teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in Developmental Biology, Genetics, Cell and Molecular Biology and Tissue Culture in the College of Science and the Graduate School, finished her PhD in Molecular Medicine from National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan and has been with the Department of Biological Sciences for almost 25 years.