UH Med Now - Research

While students at the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine are on spring break this week, Dr. Albert To will be in Africa, more than 9,000 miles away from home, researching ways to help Liberia determine where insect-borne viruses are present. In October, Dr. To received the American Society of Tropical Medicine […]

As part of our immune systems, white blood cells protect against infection and respond to injury or illness. Made in bone marrow, they account for about 1% of our blood, constantly flowing through our bloodstream and fending off potential infection. JABSOM research shows white blood cells work harder in people with long-term COVID. The white […]

Tropical Medicine & Microbiology graduate student David Maison has been fervently studying COVID and appeared as first author in four peer-reviewed publications. Maison, who will be getting his PhD in May 2023, investigates the introduction of the COVID variants to Hawaiʻi, and how to combat them through next-generation vaccines while looking ahead to mutations on […]

“Lifelong learning is her passion.” That’s what Pauline Mashima, graduate chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), shared about her mentor, CSD professor Dorothy Craven. Craven knew she always wanted to be a teacher, which was driven by her passion of helping others. She piqued a particular interest in speech-language pathology after […]

For nearly three decades, Cris Milne has been a frontline warrior in the fight against HIV. “We’ve battled HIV down quite a bit. I think the progress that’s been made in HIV care has been revolutionary,” Milne said. The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaiʻi (RCUH) awarded Milne, an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), […]

A recent University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa graduate, who is making tremendous strides into Alzheimer’s disease research, was recognized as one of the top student scholars in the nation. Geetika Patwardhan, a spring 2022 molecular cell biology graduate in the UH Mānoa School of Life Sciences and Honors Program alumna, has been named one of […]