Funding from the RADx Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, of the National Institutes of Health, will support the Puipuia le Ola project, which seeks to develop, disseminate and evaluate culturally tailored and linguistically appropria…

Former COBRE Small Grants Program awardee, Angel Yanagihara, attended the Military Health System Research Symposium, held in Kissimmee, Florida, on August 19-21 2019, where she presented findings from a collaborative project, entitled “Lethal Box Jellyfish Envenomation Syndromes”, conducted with Cat…

Dr. Axel T. Lehrer, a former COBRE Small Grants Program awardee, and his research team have successfully developed a recombinant subunit protein-based vaccine for Zika virus. Previously, he demonstrated that this vaccine was effective in protecting mice from Zika virus challenge. These studies have …

Background: With evidence of sustained transmission in more than 190 countries, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared a global pandemic. Data are urgently needed about risk factors associated with clinical outcomes.

Methods: A retrospective review of 323 hospitalized patients with…

Genomic reassortment of segmented RNA virus strains is an important evolutionary mechanism that can generate novel viruses with profound effects on human and animal health, such as the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009 arising from reassortment of two swine influenza viruses. Reassortment is not restr…

With the recent discovery of genetically distinct hantaviruses (family Hantaviridae) in shrews (order Eulipotyphla, family Soricidae), the once-conventional view that rodents (order Rodentia) served as the primordial reservoir hosts now appears improbable. The newly identified soricid-borne hantavir…