UH Cancer Center event awards top community partners
Reading time: 2 minutes Physicians, nurses and research administrators throughout Hawaiʻi were awarded for their efforts toward clinical research by the UH Cancer Center.
UH Cancer Center to help Med-QUEST patients with clinical trials access
Reading time: 2 minutes The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center is collaborating with the State of HawaiʻiDepartment of Human Services Med-QUEST Division to ensure patients have access to clinical cancer trials.
Cancer-related gene research leads to $2.6M grant
Reading time: 2 minutes The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $2.6-million grant to University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researchers to study the role of the BAP1 gene in human cancer development and cell metabolism.
Liver cancer clinical trial only available in Hawaiʻi
Reading time: 2 minutes A new University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center coordinated liver cancer clinical trial in Hawaiʻi combines two different immunotherapy medications to combat the aggressive disease.
3D scan study by UH Cancer Center student hailed for obesity findings
Reading time: 2 minutes A 3D optical scan study by Michael Wong, a UH Mānoa graduate student in the UH Cancer Center, was selected by OBESITY as one of the top five entries for research that significantly furthers scientific understanding of obesity.
UH Cancer Center receives $2M to study genetic risk factors to environmental toxins
Reading time: 2 minutes 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
Reading time: < 1 minute 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
Reading time: 3 minutes 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
Reading time: 2 minutes 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
Reading time: 2 minutes Funding will help increase participation of minority, rural and underserved patient populations in Hawaiʻi.
