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Lab news, awards, conference reports, and Q&A pieces. Listed newest first.
June 22, 2026
New medical AI center aims to bring better diagnoses to Hawaiʻi and the Pacific
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May 9, 2026
Three undergraduate researchers present mammography-AI standardization work at 2026 UH Mānoa Spring Undergraduate Showcase
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May 7, 2026
AI PHI Affinity Group · June 5: Tianyu Zhang on LUMIN, predicting breast-cancer recurrence from longitudinal multimodal screening
The June Affinity Group hosts Tianyu Zhang, PhD — postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (Amsterdam) and Radboud University Medical Centre (Nijmegen). His talk presents LUMIN: A Longitudinal Multi...
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May 7, 2026
AI PHI Affinity Group · July 10: Ehsan Adeli on the 'mirage' problem in multimodal medical AI
The AI PHI Affinity Group’s July talk hosts Ehsan Adeli, PhD — Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Biomedical Data Science and Computer Sci...
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May 6, 2026
Dustin Valdez wins Friday Session poster award at 2026 JABSOM Biomedical Sciences Symposium
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May 6, 2026
Arianna Bunnell named 2026 Soroptimist Founder Region Fellow
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April 25, 2026
Shepherd Research Lab presents five projects at 2026 JABSOM Biomedical Sciences Symposium
Shepherd Research Lab members presented five posters at the 2026 Annual Biomedical Sciences Symposium hosted by the John A. Burns School of Medicine on April 24 and 25 at the Kakaʻako campus. The symposium showcases r...
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December 5, 2025
Jonathan Bennett receives Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award for infant body-composition scanner
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November 3, 2025
Q&A: Understanding breast density, cancer risk and new patient rule
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August 5, 2024
CREATE Program 2024 concludes with valuable findings on body composition measures for babies
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June 4, 2024
Shepherd named endowed professor to spearhead breast cancer study
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May 29, 2024
Top honors for UH Mānoa STEM scholars, JABSOM epigeneticist
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May 22, 2024
Researcher unlocking mystery of breast cancer in Hawaiʻi
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May 2, 2024
UH Cancer Center research program manager wins densitometry award
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September 20, 2023
Improved breast cancer risk assessment aim of new questionnaire
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June 13, 2023
Kona Breast Cancer Conference — Big Island Video News update
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June 12, 2023
Early cancer detection for saving lives: Symposium addresses new breast screening technology
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June 8, 2023
What's Up, Doc? Health Care Trends Toward Progress in Hawaiʻi (HONOLULU Magazine)
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February 10, 2023
Lambert Leong receives 2022–23 Mirikitani Outstanding Dissertation Award
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December 2, 2022
Affinity Group: Adam Yala on machine-learning methods for personalized screening
The AI PHI Affinity Group hosted Adam Yala — Assistant Professor of Computational Precision Health and EECS at UC Berkeley and UCSF — for a December 2022 talk titled “Seeing into the future: Machine learning methods f...
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February 8, 2022
Amazing turnout at the Body Composition Lab for the Orangetheory Challenge
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