The National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health, has invested more than $1.5 million in projects involving the University of Hawai`i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) this year, including “STEP-UP”, which is successfully recruiting high school students into careers in biomedical research. STEP-UP allows ten high [...]
Hundreds of Island residents obviously interested in health and wellness attended the 2012 Community Heath Fair organized by first and second-year students of the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), on January 6. Some guests even showed up at the Kaka’ako campus early, ten or fifteen minutes before the [...]
In 1987, working in California, Rebecca Cann and her colleagues gained widespread attention for identifying an ancestral mother of all living humans. The past few decades, Cann, a faculty member in the Department of Cell & Molecular Biology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, has been teaming with University of Hawai’i Manoa Zoology [...]
The President of the American Association of Medical College (AAMC), Dr. Darrell Kirch, singled out the University of Hawaii Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine for its incredible diversity during his speech at the 122nd Annual Meeting of the AAMC in Denver, Colorado. Here’s what he said about us, during a speech entitled “The [...]
Dr. Elizabeth Tam, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Hawai’i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine, has received the Laureate Award from the American College of Physicians (ACP) Hawai`i Chapter. The award, presented at the chapter’s January 7, 2012 meeting, recognizes Dr. Tam for “her leadership…selfless promotion of Internal Medicine…and her [...]
The field of bioengineering is rapidly growing nationally and globally due to engineering technology advances that facilitate breakthroughs in medicine and biology. Bioengineering is currently the fastest growing occupation in the US. At the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, there is a Bioengineering cluster of twenty engineering and John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) [...]