Hawaii, a prime tourism destination, in combination with its largely multi-racial resident population, presents a unique opportunity to identify and chart the distribution of SARS-CoV-2 variants, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease. The National Institutes of Health has committed $779,792 …

A federal initiative seeking to recruit and mentor STEM students from underrepresented backgrounds toward pursuing careers in biomedical research has awarded the University of Hawaii at Manoa a five-year, $2 million grant.

The National Institutes of Health’s "Maximizing Access to Research Car…

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…

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…