Chaminade Receives $40,000 and $4 Million Dollar Grants

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National Institutes of Health, BUILDING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPACITY (BRIC) GRANT AWARDED TO CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY
Chaminade University Receives Cancer Research Grant from the Alana Dung Research Foundation

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National Institutes of Health, BUILDING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPACITY (BRIC) GRANT AWARDED TO CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY
--FOCUS ON HEALTH ISSUES AFFECTING PACIFIC POPULATIONS--

HONOLULU—March 24, 2011--A grant for approximately $4.1 million over five years has been awarded to Chaminade University by the National Center for Minority Health and Disease of the National Institutes of Health. This Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity (BRIC) award will support excellence in student preparation and faculty research with a focus on health issues that disproportionately affect Pacific populations. The grant proposal efforts were spearheaded by Dr. Helen Turner, Dean of Chaminade’s Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Dr. Thomas Wesselkamper, director of Chaminade’s Office of Sponsored Research.

“This is a transformative award for the life sciences at Chaminade,” Dean Turner said. “The grant recognizes Chaminade’s tremendous investment in research and instructional facilities for biomedical sciences. To be recognized with such a highly competitive award is a validation of our commitment to build curriculum and research capability that will train the next generation of researchers and health practitioners to combat diseases that affect our communities in the Pacific and nationwide”.

The award will fund capacity building efforts, faculty research, student research and enrichment activities, curriculum development and advanced instrumentation. Dr. Turner commented upon two areas of particular excitement to her “We will be able to generously support faculty and student research in areas such as the respiratory effects of vog, diabetes prevalence in the Pacific, and the immunobiology of obesity”. In addition, she notes that “In March 2011 Chaminade approved a state-of-the-art new biology BS curriculum, and will offer a BS in biochemistry for the first time in fall 2011, and this award will provide critical infrastructure and student experiences for these cutting-edge new biomedical degree programs”. Behind the scenes, the BRIC program will also allow a high-speed, high-capacity data network to connect students and faculty with the many sophisticated instruments newly available in Chaminade’s laboratories. “These are exciting times at Chaminade” says Turner “and this award will help us realize our full potential to lead in undergraduate science education in Hawaii”.

Celebrating more than 50 years of educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University is a Catholic/ Marianist university offering programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses. Chaminade is also a Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander serving institution with its main campus located at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, and 10 satellite locations around Oahu. Chaminade University is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and looks forward to increased opportunities to promote environmental sustainability. For more information, visit the Chaminade Web site at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.
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Chaminade University Receives Cancer Research Grant from the Alana Dung Research Foundation

HONOLULU—March 24, 2011—The Alana Dung Research Foundation awarded Chaminade University a $40,000 seed grant to initiate research on liver cancer.

Dr. Joan Kuh, a Chaminade biology professor specializing in genetics, will lead the research to build upon her preliminary inquiries into hepatic steatosis and the inflammatory progression to cancer of the liver. The grant from the Alana Dung Research Foundation will allow Dr. Kuh to collect additional data sets needed to advance her initial findings and acquire longer-term funding for the project.

The Alana Dung Research Foundation was established by Stephen and Adelia Dung. When their daughter, Alana, became ill with leukemia, they became impassioned about the need to support research focused on the serious illnesses affecting children, and to support those whose work is directed at eliminating the pain and suffering caused by terminal illnesses. The Foundation provides financial support to worthy research organizations and individuals throughout the world for clinical studies and research directed at improving the quality of life for sick children, improving treatment and preventing disease.

Educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University is a Catholic/ Marianist university offering programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses. Chaminade is also a Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander serving institution with its main campus located at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, and 10 satellite locations around Oahu. For more information, visit the Chaminade Web site at <http://www.chaminade.edu>www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.
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