Press Releases

2024

The Pacific Center for Genome Research Director Dr. Wu was selected as the 2024 University of Hawaiʻi nominee for the Governor’s Award for Distinguished State Service Employee of the Year, which received media coverage:
UH News “UH Cancer Center’s Wu nominated for State Employee of the Year”, September 19, 2024
The Pacific Center for Genome Research hosted the inaugural in-person meeting of the Centers for Genome Research Consortium in April 2024, which received media coverage:
UH News “Boosting diversity aim of 1st gathering at UH genome center”, July 17, 2024
Two studies we conducted, “Associations between genetically predicted levels of blood metabolites and pancreatic cancer risk” published in International Journal of Cancer in July 2023, and “Identification of blood protein biomarkers associated with prostate cancer risk using genetic prediction models: analysis of over 140,000 subjects” published in Human Molecular Genetics in November 2023, are selected as research highlights by the NCI Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program and received media coverage:
“National Cancer Institute highlights UH research”, February 21, 2024
A study we conducted, “Identification of blood metabolites associated with risk of Alzheimer’s disease by integrating genomics and metabolomics data”, published in Molecular Psychiatry in January 2024, received media coverage:
UH News “New blood biomarkers linked to Alzheimer’s”, February 12, 2024

A U54 Center Grant of Pacific Center for Genome Research received media coverage:
“$10.9M to establish UH Pacific Center for Genome Research”, October 9, 2023*
*this news is one of the top 10 UH News research stories of the year