The purpose of the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Small Grants Program is to provide support via three funding mechanisms to University of Hawaii (UH) faculty engaged in research in tropical medicine, medical microbiology, immunology, and non-HIV/AIDS emerging infectious diseases….

The cover story in the January 2018 issue of Nature Medicine, entitled ‘Puzzling over privilege’, highlights the research on Zika virus by Saguna Verma and her co-workers, published recently in the October 2017 issue of the Journal of Virology.

The recent Zika and Ebola virus epidemics have s…

The University of Hawaii at Manoa, under the leadership of Vivek R. Nerurkar, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, has successfully competed for renewed five-year funding for the Northern/Pa…

Following the 2015 Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreaks in the South Pacific, Caribbean, and Americas, ZIKV has emerged as a serious threat due to its association with infantile microcephaly and other neurologic disorders. Despite an international effort to develop a safe and effective vaccine to combat cong…

Zika virus (ZIKV) has recently emerged as a new public health threat. ZIKV infections
have caused a wide spectrum of neurological diseases, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, myelitis,
meningoencephalitis, and congenital microcephaly. No effective therapies currently exist for treating patients infe…

Risk of malaria in infants can be influenced by prenatal factors. In this study, the potential for placental parasitemia at delivery in predicting susceptibility of infants to Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) infections was evaluated. Seventy-two newborns of mothers who were placental malaria negat…