NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
AWARDS
Gertraud Maskarinec , MD , PhD 2017 Fulbright Global Awardee A $ 20,000 award to conduct research on the relation of obesity , type 2 diabetes , and breast cancer in Caucasian and Asian women .
UH CANCER CENTER HISTORICAL TIMELINE
1971
The UH Cancer Center was established as part of the UH Pacifc Biomedical Research Center .
1981
UH Board of Regents establishes the UH Cancer Center as a free-standing organized research institute .
The Cancer Center becomes a member of the frst of several national cancer cooperative study groups , which enables patients from Hawai ‘ i to par ticipate in cancer clinical trials .
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