Pictured: a poster session during the 2017 Symposium.
By UH Med Now
The Annual Biomedical Sciences and Health Disparities Symposium is another record breaker, with 171 college students, graduate students, MD students MDs and faculty presenting their original research in poster sessions.
The Symposium runs April 18 and 19, from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Kakaʻako campus of the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa (UHM). The poster sessions are on the ground floor of the Sullivan Conference Center.
Undergraduates from all of the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) system campuses will be featured, as participants of the Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program based at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). In addition, researchers from Hawaiʻi Pacific University, Chaminade University and The Queen’s Medical Center each have poster entered. New this year, Hawaiʻi Pacific Neuroscience has two posters and there are two posters by the UH Mānoa Mechanical Engineering Department working in collaboration with the UH JABSOM Pediatrics Department.
Poster session schedules for April 18, 2018:
9 a.m – 11 a.m. Graduate Students, Technicians, Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates
1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Graduate Students, Technicians, Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates
Poster session schedules for April 19, 2018:
9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m. Faculty, Residents, Medical Students, Medical Fellows, Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, Undergraduates
12:30 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Undergraduates
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Undergraduates
The UHM John A. Burns School of Medicine and the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center are co-hosting this year’s Symposium Keynote Speaker, a noted researcher in the field of cancer:
The keynote address is the first day, April 18, at 12 noon until 1 p.m. The speaker is Keshav K. Singh, Ph.D., The Joy and Bill Harbert Endowed Chair, Professor of Genetics, Pathology and Environmental Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) medical school. He is also Founding Editor-in-Chief, of the Mitochondrion Journal, and Director, of the Cancer Genetics Program in the UAB Department of Genetics.