Carlos Casiano, PhD Professor, Basic Sciences School of Medicine Associate Professor, Medicine School of Medicine Member, Microbiology&Molecular Gen, SM, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Service 

  International Service

• External Grant Reviewer, Cariplo Foundation, Italy ( 10/2010 )

• International PhD Dissertation Referee, University of Leuven, Belgium    ( 10/2009 - 12/2009 )

• Grant Reviewer, Ireland Health Research Board   ( 10/2007 )

• Grant Application Reviewer, Ireland Health Research Board   ( 1/2007 - 7/2007 )

• Grant Application Reviewer, FWO-National Fund for Scientific Research of Belgium ( 1/2004 - 12/2006 )

• International Advisory Committee, Dresden Symposium of Autoantibodies and Autoimmunity ( 10/2002 - 9/2004 ) Consultanship

  Community Service

• Community Youth Sports Leader - Division Coordinator and Member of Organizing Committee, Azure Hills Youth Basketball League, Grand Terrace-Loma Linda ( 12/2005 - 3/2010 )

• Mentor, AACR Annual Meeting Science Education Programs for High School and Undergraduate Students    ( 4/2004 - 4/2008 )

  Committee Membership (LLU)

• Member, LLU School of Medicine Admissions Committee ( 12/2007 - 7/2011 )

• LLU Diversity Faculty Forum ( 9/2004 - 7/2010 )

• LLUAHSC Board Research Affairs Committee - Regular Member, Faculty Representative ( 7/2004 - 12/2009 )

• LLU School of Medicine Annual Research Symposium Organizing Committee ( 7/2000 - 7/2009 )

• Associate Director and Director of Research Education and Training Core, LLUSM Center for Health Disparities and Molecular Medicine  ( 9/2006 - 6/2009 )

• LLU School of Medicine Diversity Committee - Regular Member ( 7/2001 - 6/2009 )

• LLU School of Medicine Basic Science Advisory Council - Regular Member and Former Chair ( 7/2000 - 6/2009 )

• LLU Graduate Council - Regular Member, Faculty Representative ( 6/2006 - 8/2008 )

• Regular Member - LLUSM Faculty Evaluation Committee ( 7/2004 - 6/2005 )

• Regular Member - Organizing Committee, LLUSM Annual Research Symposium ( 1/1999 - 6/2005 )

  Committee Membership (non-LLU)

• Member, Program Steering Committee,  NIH/NCI-U56 Partnership between NCI, Moffitt Cancer Center (Tampa), and Ponce School of Medicine (Puerto Rico).   ( 5/2009 - 12/2010 )

• Ad-Hoc member and occasional Chair,  NIH-NIGMS MBRS-SCORE Program Review Panel ( 6/2000 - 11/2010 )

• Ad Hoc Member, NIH-NCI U54 Cancer Center-Community Serving Institution Partnership Study Section   ( 6/2008 - 7/2010 )

• Ad-Hoc Member, USAMRMC/CDMRP Prostate Cancer Research Program, Cell Biology Study Section ( 9/2008 - 9/2009 )

• Grant Pre-submission Reviewer: University of Texas, El Paso; California State University, San Diego.  ( 1/2006 - 12/2008 )

• Peer Reviewer for Arthritis Care and Research, Arthritis and Rheumatism, BMC Biotechnology, Cell Death and Differentiation, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Experimental Cell Research, Experimental Eye Research, FASEB J., J. Autoimmunity, J. Cell Biology,  J. Experimental Medicine, J. Molecular Biology, J. Proteome Research, J. Rheumatology, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Molecular Cellular Proteomics, Pharmacological Research, PNAS, Trends in Biochemical Sciences  ( 1/1999 - 12/2008 )

• Member, AACR Centennial Grant-Research Fellowship Selection Committee  ( 5/2008 - 6/2008 )

• Tenure Application External Reviewer, University of Texas El Paso and University of California Los Angeles      ( 1/2008 - 6/2008 )

• Chairperson, AACR-Thomas J. Bardos Science Education Awards for Undergraduate Students Committee ( 1/2008 - 4/2008 )

• Chairperson and member,  American Association for Cancer Research-Minorities in Cancer Research Council ( 4/2004 - 4/2008 )

• AACR Science Education Committee ( 4/2004 - 4/2008 ) Regular Member

• Mentor, AACR Annual Meeting Science Education Programs for High School and Undergraduate Students    ( 3/2004 - 4/2008 )

• Member, Scientific Review Committee. AACR Conference “The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved”.   Atlanta, GA,  ( 11/2007 )

• AACR-Jane Wright Lectureship Award Selection Committee ( 4/2005 - 4/2007 ) Consultanship

• AACR-MICR Cancer Health Disparities Think Tank ( 4/2006 - 10/2006 ) Regular Member

• Organized and Co-chaired the AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Forum on Health Disparities Titled: Genetic Heterogeneity and Race-Based Associations: How Can We Do Better?  Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Anaheim CA.   ( 1/2005 - 4/2005 )

  Presentations -- Lay Audience

• Invited guest,  Selma Schimmel’s Cancer Talk Radio Show “The Group Room”. Lay discussion of the growing problem of cancer health disparities. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Los Angeles, CA.    ( 4/2007 )