Integrative Center for Precision Nutrition and Human Health
The goal of the NIH Common Fund’s Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program, is to develop algorithms that predict individual responses to food and dietary patterns. Nutrition plays an integral role in human development and in the prevention and treatment of disease. However, there’s no such thing as a perfect, one-size-fits-all […]
Center for Pacific Innovations, Knowledge, and Opportunities (PIKO)
A $15-million, five-year grant has been awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to establish the Center for Pacific Innovations, Knowledge, and Opportunities (PIKO) to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Pacific People (IPP), defined as Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Filipinos. These communities comprise 40% of the state’s population […]
Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
Established in 2003, the Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, a translational science center of excellence supported by funding from the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) component of the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program, seeks to develop and deploy rapid diagnostics, improved therapeutics and affordable vaccines for new, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases […]
IBR-COBRE Phase III
Overall Component Approximately 70,000 babies born in the U.S. in 2015 were conceived by artificial reproductive technologies (ART), which involves one of two techniques: in vitro fertilization (IVF) in which the sperm fertilizes the egg in vitro, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in which the sperm is injected into the egg using micromanipulation. The rapid […]
Center for Translational Research on Aging
Kuakini Medical Center (Kuakini) proposes to develop a multidisciplinary Hawai’i-based Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) for translational research on aging. This Center will draw on the most promising junior investigators from across the state with cross-institutional and interdisciplinary collaborative efforts between Kuakini, the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), and […]
COBRE-DIABETES
Overall The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawaii (UH) proposes to develop a multidisciplinary Hawaii-based Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Diabetes Mellitus (DM). This Center will initially span departmental and eventually campus borders to promote the metabolic health of the people of Hawaii and the Pacific region. […]
Integrative Center for Environmental Microbiomes and Human Health
The goal of the proposed COBRE program is to create an Integrative Center for Environmental Microbiomes and Human Health (ICEMHH) in response to the 2016 announcement of the National Microbiome Initiative (NMI). The NMI was conceived through the recognition that humans are both connected to and reliant upon the microbial communities that constitute the Earth’s […]
Circulating Lipid and miRNA Narkers for Early Detection of Breast Cancer Among Women with Abnormal Mammograms
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the world. When breast cancer is found in early stages, it can be effectively treated or even cured, but treating a patient in later stages is very difficult. Thus, early detection of breast cancer is critical. Mammography is the current gold standard for breast cancer […]
Hawaii Statewide Research and Education Partnership
The Hawaii Statewide Research and Education Partnership (HiSREP) comprises a network of nearly all of the institutions of higher learning in the state of Hawaii, specifically 4 primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs), 1 University of Hawaii (UH) college and 4 UH community colleges under the management of the lead R1 institution, the University of Hawaii at […]