$10.4M grant to UH researchers links environmental microbiomes to human health
The buzz over a recent $10.4-million grant to five junior researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is about much more than mosquitoes.
The funds from the National Institutes of Health Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) support the first center focusing on the interface between environmental microbiomes and human health.
Microbiomes are communities of microorganisms that live on and in people, animals, plants, soil, oceans and the atmosphere.