Center for Pacific Innovations, Knowledge & Opportunities - PIKO

10/11/2025

10/03/2025

🌺✨ We’re excited to launch a new series: Community Research Spotlight!

On the first Friday of every month, we’ll share inspiring projects from researchers and community members making an impact here in Hawaiʻi.

This month, we’re featuring PIKO Pilot Awardee Lori Daniels and her team, who worked alongside kūpuna to adapt storytelling practices into a Native Hawaiian version of Life Review (LR).

Their work inspired the PIKO Kūpuna Kards 36 🎴 — conversation cards designed to spark moʻolelo, strengthen pilina, and connect generations.

Mahalo nui to the research team for doing this work and sharing it with the community!

Stay tuned for a new spotlight every First Friday! 🎉 If you have any questions, please feel free to DM us.

09/25/2025

Registration is now open for PIKO's Professional Development (PD) fantastic three-part online career training, Specific Aims Workshop. Between Friday, October 3, 2025 and November 14, 2025, you, your group members, and your group facilitator will create a compelling Specific Aims Page. Registration will close Thursday, October 2, 2025.

Be prepared to provide:
A working title of your research grant application.
3-5 sentences about the significance and objective of your research project.
The funding agency and funding opportunity you are targeting.
The name and affiliation of your academic mentor (someone who understands your research area and can help guide your research).

Please register to receive a recorded first session with instructions for writing a compelling Specific Aims Page, even those that cannot attend on October 3.

Date/Time: October 3, 2025, 12-1 pm (Zoom link will be emailed to you after registering); two 2-hour follow-up sessions (between October 13 and November 14, 2025

09/23/2025

Looking for NIH funding, but not sure how? 🧐
Looking for NIH funding, but not sure which mechanism is best? 🤷‍♂️
Want to know who’s been funded for research in your area? 👍
Want to know which NIH institutes or centers would be most open to funding your research? 😍
Register through our bio for the NIH Funding Mechanism and NIH RePORTER!! Closes Thursday September 25, 2025. No preparation needed. See flyer for more details.
Date/Time: September 26, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm via Zoom (Zoom link will be emailed to you after registration)
Speakers: Dr. Richard Yanagihara and Dr. David Horgen

09/20/2025

The Bioinformatics Core at the University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) and MathWorks cordially invite you to attend a seminar by our special guest speaker, Reece Teramoto, on: Deep Learning Overview for Medical Imaging.
Next week Wednesday, September 24, 2025, from 9:30–11:00 AM HST in JABSOM Biosciences Building, Room 222N (limited in-person spots) or via Zoom (link provided after registration). For more details, please see the attached flyer or contact Grace Pan, ypan@hawaii.edu.

For those who would like to prepare in advance, MathWorks offers the following free online courses: MATLAB Onramp, Image Processing Onramp, Deep Learning Onramp, and Computer Vision Onramp. Participants will receive a certificate from MathWorks upon completion.

Thank you very much for your support, and we look forward to your participation.

09/18/2025

Aloha kākou,

We’re excited to let you know about the upcoming Research Evening on Thursday, September 18 (TOMORROW) from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, happening at Lincoln Elementary Cafeteria.

The evening will be an opportunity to learn about CBPR projects in Homestead communities. Please RSVP by calling the number on the attached flyer or via the online google form/qr code.

We hope you can join us for this special event, we’d love to see you there! If you have any questions, please let Rhea Jose, rheajose@hawaii.edu, know.

08/29/2025

The Department of Native Hawaiian Health PBA Administrative & Fiscal Support Specialist has been reposted (0081508T). If you know of any potential applicants, please forward them the link found in our bio.

08/18/2025

HAPPENING NOW!!!
The Bioinformatics Core at the University of Hawaii JABSOM will host a Bioinformatics Data Science Workshop Series from August 18–20 and August 22, 2025.
Free Registration: https://forms.gle/YjczmA5xFsuNfinQ8
Zoom link to be sent after registration
Limited spots available - please register if you are committed to attending.

Workshop Agenda
Day 1: Monday, 08/18/2025 Multiple Testing & Missing Data
Day 2: Tuesday, 08/19/2025 Data Visualization & Reporting in R with Quarto
Day 3: Wednesday, 08/20/2025 Bioinformatics on AnVIL Terra
Day 4: Friday, 08/22/2025 Genome Assembly & Annotation

For any questions please contact Grace Pan at ypan@hawaii.edu

08/11/2025

Please save the date if you can join us at the NIBRE conference next year. Pilot project investigators considering attending or submitting an abstract may reach out to former PIKO attendees Dr. Kaholokula, Dr. Sumida, Dr. Miller and Dr. Kendal-Wright to learn more about this symposium.

08/08/2025

Hawaiʻi’s rural communities have limited access to emergency medical services as well as reliable or affordable transportation options to access primary care and specialized healthcare services. These issues are particularly prominent for pregnant mothers. To address these needs, the University of Hawaiʻi Rural Health Research and Policy Center (UH RHRPC) designed and conducted a four-part project on the topic, entitled “The Impacts of Transportation and Travel Access on Rural Health in Hawaiʻi.”

Join this one hour webinar to learn more about the report’s findings, followed by a live Q&A session.

08/04/2025

GUMSHOE, Mentoring Bootcamp and the Specific Aims Workshop WORK! The PIKO PD Core successfully developed and offered a training series using the scaffolded approach to grant writing informed by Vygotsky’s Learning Theory.

Congratulations to the PD Core for successfully publishing a manuscript about their unique scaffolding mentoring approach in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. An additional congratulations to Dr. Ing, Dr. Manson, and Dr. Kaholokula for joining the PD Core leadership team in writing and publishing.

Please give the open access manuscript a read. Find the link in our bio.

07/28/2025

The Asia-Pacific Long COVID ECHO is designed to equip primary care providers, specialists, and community-based practitioners across Hawai'i and the Pacific with the tools and support needed to recognize, diagnose, and manage Long COVID and related chronic fatiguing illnesses.

Topic: Cardiac Complications in Long COVID
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 12, 2025/4:00-5:00 pm HST
Presenters:
· Jeffery Hsu, MD, PhD
· Melissa Agsalda, PhD
· Dominic Chow, MD, PhD