Internship Program proposal wins Mānoa Provost ’ s Strategic Investment Competition Award
The Cancer Research Internship
Program proposal submitted by UH Cancer Center researchers , Gertraud Maskarinec , MD , PhD , associate director for research education , and Joe W . Ramos , PhD , deputy director , is one of the winners of the University of Hawai ‘ i at Mānoa Provost ’ s Strategic Investment Competition . The Program will offer undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct research in an interdisciplinary environment and to receive mentoring from UH Cancer Center faculty members to achieve
Gertraud Maskarinec , MD , PhD
Joe W . Ramos , PhD
entry into graduate school . The award expands the Cancer Center ’ s Summer Internship Program to allow UH Mānoa students continued mentorship throughout the school year .
The competition is designed to increase cross-unit and cross-disciplinary collaboration in strategic areas that , with start-up funding , have a strong possibility for success in building on UH Mānoa ’ s strengths while also addressing challenges . Out of 42 collaborative proposals , 16 were selected to receive a total of $ 750,000 in start-up funding .
oboru Oishi , MD , who helped launch the
UH Cancer Center , passed away on March 5 , 2020 at the age of 91 , at his home in South Lake Tahoe , California . Born on Kaua ‘ i and raised on O ‘ ahu , Oishi was the first fellowship-trained hematologist / oncologist in Hawai ‘ i , where he established a successful practice , taught students of the John A . Burns School of Medicine , and conducted clinical research . He was very involved in the Southwest Oncology Group , an organization that conducted research and clinical trials , through which he made key contributions that led to improved oncologic care for patients in Hawai ‘ i .
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ALEXANDRA BINDER , PHD , joined the UH Cancer Center as an assistant researcher in November 2019 . Prior to joining the Cancer Center , she was an assistant professor at the University of California , Los Angeles , Fielding School of Public Health . Her current research focuses on the developmental origins of health and disease , environmental influences on pubertal development , life-course epigenetics , biological aging and cancer risk .
S . LANI PARK , PHD , was appointed as an associate researcher at the UH Cancer Center in January 2020 . Park received her PhD in cancer epidemiology from the University of California , Los Angeles , and did her post-doctoral fellowship at the UH Cancer Center . Park ’ s research interests include cancer epidemiology , lung cancer epidemiology and cancer disparities .
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