{"id":9338,"date":"2012-08-31T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T00:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2021-03-04T16:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T02:37:49","slug":"four-receive-weinman-innovator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/31\/four-receive-weinman-innovator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Four receive Weinman Innovator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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From left, Linda Wong, Maarit Tiirikainen, Min-Ae Song and Sandi Kwee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center<\/a> has awarded researchers Sandi Kwee<\/strong>, Maarit Tiirikainen<\/strong>, Linda Wong<\/strong> and Min-Ae Song<\/strong> the 2012 Weinman Innovator Award for translational research. Their proposal, “Liver Cancer Detection Using Tumor DNA<\/abbr> Isolated from the Blood,” was selected from five other proposals. <\/p>\n

The team will use the $50,000 award to isolate and characterize free circulating tumor DNA<\/abbr> (ctDNA<\/abbr>) from the bloodstream of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC<\/abbr>), the most common type of liver cancer. These efforts could lead to new methods for diagnosing HCC<\/abbr>, as well as enhance strategies for customizing treatments based on the individual genetics of a patient’s tumor.<\/p>\n

“Our team is truly grateful to the Weinman Foundation for supporting efforts to translate cancer research into cancer care,” said Kwee.<\/p>\n

The Weinman Innovator Award is presented annually and is a vital piece of philanthropic support that promotes and rewards excellence in translational research among the cancer center’s faculty and staff. The award is funded through a $1.7 million Weinman Foundation Fund for Innovation endowment provided by Virginia and Barry Weinman to support the development of innovative diagnostic as well as therapeutic approaches to curing cancer.<\/p>\n

Adapted from a University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa news release<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center researchers Sandi Kwee, Maarit Tiirikainen, Linda Wong and Min-Ae Song receive $50,000 to conduct further research into liver cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[169,9],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136680,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions\/136680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}