University of Hawai‘i scholar Jouran Posner attended the Keystone Symposium on B Cells at the Intersection of Innate and Adaptive Immunity over the summer, thanks to funding from her ARCS/Roche Foundation Award in Medicine. She was invited to give a short talk on her research in addition to her poster presentation...
Glen M. Chew’s research has identified a way to “release the brakes” and reverse defects in viral-specific immune cells that keep them from killing HIV-infected cells. Chew received the Honolulu Chapter’s 2016 Koenig Award in Medicine.
“Our findings will give new directions to vaccines and therapies that will potentially reverse these...
2002 Honolulu Scholar Kelly Benoit-Bird has been named a PopTech! Fellow and received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" grant for developing accoustic equipment to study marine mammals and the open ocean ecosystem. Read more.
2011 ARCS Honolulu Scholar Yuriy Mikhaylov conducts research on the impact tsunami forces on coastal structures—a subject of obvious interest in the wake of the tsunami damage resulting from this year’s earthquake in Japan.
Using computer simulation models, Mikhaylov applies eight kinds of tsunami-induced forces on six prototypical buildings, per the...