Hawaiʻi residents with hypertension (high blood pressure) who struggle to afford healthy food will soon receive a powerful new prescription from their doctors: fresh, local produce. A new program will provide patients with $100 a month in vouchers to buy…
Children ages two to eight years across 11 Pacific jurisdictions—including Hawaiʻi—are not meeting daily recommended intakes for key micronutrients (essential vitamins and minerals needed in small amounts for health), either consuming too much or too little. That discovery was published…
A $4-million National Institutes of Health (NIH) study led by scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will investigate diabetes, heart and lung health disparities in Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans. The award will establish the Pacific Ocean Native Observational (PONO)…
Assistant Professor Peter Washington from the Information and Computer Sciences Department, a recipient of Core Bucks through the Precision Nutrition COBRE Core Bucks Program, recently received a $2.18-million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use AI to diagnose mental health conditions. The…
Youping Deng and Lang Wu working in the lab. Bioinformatics core leader Youping Deng is the co-director of a genome research center that will focus on Hawaiʻi’s diverse populations with the goal of better understanding the causes of certain diseases,…
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Complex variation of the human genome and its association with epigenetic changes in the context of brain function
