HNL to Africa: Fellowship takes postdoc to Liberia for insect-borne viruses
Albert To received the Robert E. Shope International Fellowship from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Alegado becomes first Indigenous person appointed to national ocean studies board
Rosie ʻAnolani Alegado is the first Indigenous person appointed to the Ocean Studies Board.
Research predicting transmissible COVID-19 variants receives $780K
The study is based on the prediction that additional variants will be found in Hawaiʻi because of its high influx of recreational travelers from COVID-19 hotspots.
Vaccine candidates for Ebola, other filoviruses show promise
UH researchers have demonstrated the efficacy in monkeys of multiple vaccine candidates targeting three filoviruses causing life-threatening infections to humans.
Rat lungworm treatment guidelines updated
Vernon Ansdell leads the clinical subcommittee for the state’s joint task force.
New UH lab provides free, rapid result COVID-19 testing to underserved
The JABSOM Tropical Medicine Clinical Laboratory is serving those with limited access to healthcare and health insurance, as well as first responders and health care workers on the frontlines of the pandemic.
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.
