UH Med Now - Research

The American Heart Association, Pfizer, and Gates Ventures awards five new grants to 10 universities and health care systems. HONOLULU — Research scientists from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) John A. Burns Medical School (JABSOM) Department of Native Hawaiian Health (DNHH), in partnership with colleagues from nine universities and health care systems, will […]

Nearly 25 years after her birth made international headlines, Cumulina, the first cloned mouse and the first cloned mammal in the United States recently made the trek to her new home in the renowned Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. The most celebrated mouse in scientific history was named for the cumulus […]

Special spotlight in honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Lovina Abdi is a PhD candidate in the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s (JABSOM) Developmental and Reproductive Biology Department focusing on stem cell biology research. A graduate research assistant in the lab of Dr. Yiqiang Zhang, JABSOM professor, Abdi is also Indonesian-American and […]

Call for Papers: A special issue of the Hawaiʻi Journal of Health & Social Welfare (HJH&SW) Guest Edited by Kathryn L. Braun and Deborah Taira Resources and Methods for Examining Native Hawaiian, Other Pacific Islander, and Filipino Health Disparities The Center for Pacific Innovation, Knowledge, and Opportunity (PIKO) at the John A. Burns School of […]

Carmen Campbell has been studying the response between endothelial cells, which line all blood vessels and regulate exchanges between the bloodstream and its surrounding tissues and cytokines, cell-signaling molecules that aid cell to cell communication in immune responses. Specifically, her main goal is to evaluate the response of endothelial cells to sepsis-related cytokines in vitro, […]

The Honolulu Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation, Inc. is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that provides financial support to outstanding University of Hawai‘i (UH) students pursuing graduate studies and conducting research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and health. ARCS are awarded to Ph.D. level graduate students who excel in their research […]