About Rose De Guzman, PhD

EDUCATION

Transfer Student, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

BS, Nutritional Biochemistry, University of California, Davis, CA

PhD, Behavioral Neuroscience, State University New York, Albany, NY

Postdoc, Neuroimmunology, Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

AWARDS

Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award T32 - MGB Precision and Genomic Medicine Training Program

Woman of the Year Award, Reinvented Magazine, FL

College of Arts & Sciences Tuition Scholarship, UAlbany, NY

2nd Place Best Poster Presentation, Life Science Research Symposium, UAlbany, NY

Graduate Student Association Professional Development Grant, UAlbany, NY

Carson Carr Graduate Diversity Fellowship, UAlbany, NY

Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund Award, Initiatives for Women, UAlbany, NY 

Top 10 abstracts, Int’l Society for Dev Psychobiology – Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA

Frank P. Doyle Scholarship, Santa Rosa Junior College, CA

INVITED SPEAKER & SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

Speaker at national and international scientific platforms, including government-led medical roundtable discussions, student-led organizations, podcasts, and conferences: Philippine Embassy, Philippines National Center for Mental Health, Reinvented Magazine, Society for Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital, Society for Developmental Psychobiology, and Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.

LEADERSHIP

2023-Present Member – Board of Directors, Marketing and Events Committees,Families for Depression Awareness, Waltham, MA

2023 Faculty Search Committee Member, Mass General Brigham - Center for Genomic and Medicine Faculty Search

2022-2024 Associate Scholar, Society of Neuroscience Scholars Program 

2022-2023 Scholar, Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Medical School Leadership Development Program 

2021-2023 Founder, Pathways to Science and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Medical School

2021-2023 Outreach Committee Chair, Harvard Medical School Postdoc Association

2021-2023 Mentoring Committee Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital Postdoc Association

2021  Symposium Committee Member, Society for Neuroscience – Boston Chapter

2020  Advocacy Committee Chair, Association of Filipino Scientists in America

2019-2020 Research and Professional Development Grants Committee Member, UAlbany Graduate Student Association

2018-2019  Lead Organizer, AMG ROCKtoberfest Music Festival

2015-2017 Symposium Committee Member, UAlbany Life Sciences Research Symposium 

2015  Events Committee Member, SfN Hudson-Berkshire Annual Meeting

2011  Committee Member, 13th Annual Northern California Global Health Conference

2009  Co-Chair, SRJC Math Engineering Science Achievement Leadership Team

2008  President, Women in Science and Engineering Club, Santa Rosa Junior College