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The center fosters cross-disciplinary research with state-of-the-art facilities, positioning Hawaiʻi at the forefront of microbiome discovery.
UH’s microbiome center has developed an insectary, microscopy and genomic analysis cores that benefit research across disciplines.
Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have been awarded $10.7 million by the National Institutes of Health to study how human health is affected by microbiomes — collections of microbes, such as bacteria, viruses and their genes.
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have been awarded $10.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how human health is impacted by exposure to microbes. The studies will also explore how microbiomes are impacted by environmental and social-economic gradients in Hawaiʻi, and how an animal’s microbiome confers persistent health, using invertebrate hosts.
A second grant of more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health furthers UH as a microbiome research center of excellence.