{"id":226812,"date":"2025-12-12T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=226812"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:40:58","slug":"alzheimers-research-lau-ishida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/12\/alzheimers-research-lau-ishida\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s research earns 2 students international award"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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For their research into therapeutic strategies aimed at combating Alzheimer’s disease, two University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa undergraduate students earned an award at an international biomedical meeting in October.<\/p>\n

Christine Lau and Marie Ishida traveled to Daejeon, South Korea, to attend the 13th International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine. They delivered a poster presentation and an oral presentation describing their work. Lau and Ishida were recognized with an award for Top Poster Presentation from the publisher Springer–Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lau and Ishida conduct research under the mentorship of UH<\/abbr> Researcher Daniel Torres at the Pacific Biosciences Research Center<\/a>, where they study the ability of the micronutrient selenium to counteract the production of tau and beta–amyloid, two proteins involved in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n

Lau is double majoring in psychology and molecular and cell biology, and recently started her BAM<\/abbr> (bachelor’s and master’s) combined degree program for educational psychology. She hopes to go to medical school and become a forensic psychiatrist.<\/p>\n

Ishida is majoring in biology, and is working toward attending medical school and becoming a physician. She said, “the symposium was an unforgettable experience that allowed me to witness the various projects that researchers are conducting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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