Updated at 1:43 p.m., Monday, October 29, 2001
UH receives $9.5 million grant
By Jennifer Hiller
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawai‘i has received a $9.3 million federal grant to create a new cardiovascular research center.
The center will take faculty members from across UH research units — including the Pacific Biomedical Research Center, the medical school, the Cancer Research Center and the College of Natural Sciences — to study the gene mutations, cell biology and chemistry of heart disease. This would be the first center for cardiovascular research at UH, said Charles Boyd, director of the Laboratory of Matrix Pathobiology at PBRC and the leader of the new cardiovascular center. The grant comes from the National Institutes of Health — a federally funded program that has granted relatively few awards to Hawai‘i researchers. Boyd anticipates that the five faculty members most closely aligned with this new center will generate an additional $17.5 million in federal grant awards over the next five years. The Center for Biomedical Research Excellence could also eventually be housed in Kaka‘ako if plans for a new medical school and biotechnology park go through, Boyd said.
