Paulette Yamada’s Hubert V. Everly Endowed Scholar in Education award will support the launch of a student-centered research program to use exercise training to maintain the health of cancer survivors.
Potential game-changing research from three UH professors were highlighted at the UH Tech Showcase as part of the 麻豆传媒 Innovation Initiative.
Axel Lehrer will test whether the Ebola vaccine formula he has developed will protect against two additional viruses in the same family.
With a $400,000 National Institutes of Health grant, JABSOM scientist Mukesh Kumar will investigate the Zika virus in pregnancy and develop strategies to prevent transmission of the disease to the fetus.
Marla Berry and Peter Hoffmann have also been chosen to host the 12th International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine in Honolulu.
A clinical trial will begin on a drug that researchers hope will reduce inflammation in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s Disease.
Richard Yanagihara, an expert in emerging diseases, will discuss Hantaviruses: A Personal Journey of Discovery and New Beginnings at a free talk on September 14.
Liana Medina received a grant of nearly $112,000 to work with a potential vaccine for viruses related to Ebola.
The grant will intensify 麻豆传媒-based research into a disease that currently affects 155,000 adults and children—1 in 9 individuals in 麻豆传媒.
The interns, chosen through a competitive process, focused on cancer prevention and control measures, cancer epidemiology, bioinformatics and basic cancer biology.