UH opens COVID-19 testing laboratory
The Tropical Medicine Clinical Lab will begin accepting COVID-19 tests from its Kakaʻako clinic beginning October 19.
Highly competitive NIH funding for JABSOM researchers
The National Institutes of Health R01 grants bring in at least $1 million in federal direct dollars, and another half million in indirect funding to UH Mānoa.
UH research develops promising COVID-19 vaccine in early trials
Axel Lehrer with the John A. Burns School of Medicine is working with Soligenix, Inc.
Mānoa chancellor emeritus retires, will continue UH ties
Virginia Hinshaw retired June 30, 2020 after 13 years with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
UH lab to serve as hub for COVID-19 testing innovation
UH research leaders agree to stand up a lab to conduct COVID-19 testing on Oʻahu.
UH researcher’s team helps develop vaccine for COVID-19
Axel Lehrer and his lab colleagues are collaborating on developing a potential vaccine for the novel COVID-19 disease.
Tropical medicine PhD candidate hopes to solve HIV mystery
A John A. Burns School of Medicine student will earn his doctorate in tropical medicine this month as he works to help solve the mystery of why HIV “rebounds” when treatment is stopped or interrupted.
Ebola vaccine developed by UH can withstand high heat
Developed by UH Mānoa scientist Axel Lehrer, the vaccine remains viable in extreme heat conditions for several months, which is especially important where the disease outbreaks so far have begun in rural, spread-out areas of hot, dry West Africa.
New Zika vaccine effective in preclinical trials
The important milestone is effective in both mice and monkeys from the infection, according to research papers written and co-led by two JABSOM graduate students.
Ebola virus research in Liberia part of Kapiʻolani CC professor’s mission
In summer2018, John Berestecky accompanied three UH students to help with Ebola and Lassa virus research at the University of Liberia in Monrovia.
