Medical grant for UH aims to improve patient care
Star-Bulletin staff
The University of Hawaii-Manoa is one of 52 recipients of a national grant intended to help turn medical discoveries into improved medical care.
The National Institutes of Health's $190,350 planning grant will fund a cooperative program between UH-Manoa units and community and industry organizations.
Participating at UH will be the John A. Burns School of Medicine, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Pacific Biosciences Research Center and departments of electrical engineering, anthropology, psychology and information and computer sciences.
"We will work together in an interdisciplinary fashion to evaluate and develop new treatments and insights into disease prevention that can be more efficiently delivered to patients," Dr. David Easa, director of clinical research at JABSOM, said in a news release.
Among other recipients of the Clinical and Translational Science Award are Harvard, Stanford and Brown universities.
Manoa Vice Chancellor Gary Ostrander, principal investigator of the research initiative, said the national program "encourages our nation's research institutions to foster productive collaboration among experts in different fields, lower barriers between units and find ways to better service the medical needs of the community."
Ostrander also is interim dean of JABSOM and interim director of the Pacific Biomedical Research Center.