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.
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.
