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UH Cancer Center receives $2M to study genetic risk factors to environmental toxins

October 25, 2019

UH Cancer Center researchers Michele Carbone and Haining Yang were awarded the grant, over a three-year period, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

President’s September 2019 highlights and updates

September 26, 2019

Highlights include fall 2019 enrollment, UH Cancer Center research clinic, federal grants for Native Hawaiian education and more.

UH Cancer Center receives $6.5M for state’s first cutting edge research clinic

September 26, 2019

The Early Phase Cancer Clinical Research Center will provide access to phase 1 trials for cancer patients in Hawaiʻi so they do not have to travel to the continental U.S.

Family copes with loss by supporting other grieving families

September 20, 2019

The Reid J.K. Richards Foundation was established to provide support to other grieving children and young adults who lost a parent or primary caretaker through death.

$8M grant to UH Cancer Center for minority clinical trials

August 23, 2019

Funding will help increase participation of minority, rural and underserved patient populations in Hawaiʻi.

Top scientific publication spotlights UH cancer discoveries

July 12, 2019

Discoveries by UH Cancer Center researchers on ways to improve prevention, early detection and treatment of mesothelioma was featured on the cover of the September issue of Ca: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Effects of space travel focus of UH Cancer Center grant

July 9, 2019

University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researcher John Shepherd leads a study that looks at ways to measure body composition on long-duration space flights.

National Cancer Institute boosts UH Cancer Center support to $8.4M

June 16, 2019

The National Cancer Institute increased its support of the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center from $5.7 million to $8.4 million and extended its NCI designation to July 2022.

Native Hawaiians, Japanese Americans have higher risk of pancreatic cancer

June 6, 2019

Native Hawaiians and Japanese Americans have a higher risk than other ethnic/racial groups of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new study by the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center.

UH takes top honors at governor’s awards

May 20, 2019

UH Manoa Assistant Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Ron Cambra was named state manager of the year and the UH Cancer Center administrative team was chosen state team of the year.