{"id":116432,"date":"2020-04-21T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=116432"},"modified":"2020-04-21T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T23:58:53","slug":"st-baldrick-jabsom-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/21\/st-baldrick-jabsom-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"John A. Burns School of Medicine\">JABSOM<\/abbr> fellow inspired by mother to study Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_116452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116452\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-jabsom-natale-jessica.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Natale\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-jabsom-natale-jessica.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-jabsom-natale-jessica-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-jabsom-natale-jessica-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Natale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa is among 30 institutions across the <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> receiving a series of grants from the St. Baldrick&#8217;s Foundation, the largest non-government funder of childhood cancer research grants. A total of $1.8 million in grants supports the mentorship of St. Baldrick\u2019s Fellows and Summer Fellows at institutes including at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (<abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>), where pediatrician and researcher <strong>Bruce Shiramizu<\/strong> has mentored summer fellows for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s St. Baldrick\u2019s Staff Giving Campaign Summer Fellow is <strong>Jessica Natale<\/strong>, a <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa undergraduate student from Monterey, Calif. Her work will focus on generating a standardized control of Raman spectroscopy scans to detect pediatric Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/09\/tool-for-non-hodgkin-lymphoma\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> reveals screening tool for non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in children<\/a>, April 9, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;I hope that I can develop an alternative diagnosis for quicker and more efficient turnaround time, thus allowing the cancers to be detected in its earlier stages,&rdquo; said Natale. Cancer research is especially close to her heart as she remembers being a child and seeing her own mother struggle with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals with her (my mother), which drove my interest in medicine. I feel as if I owe my service and contributions to those and the field who kept my mother alive the many times they did,&rdquo; added Natale, who aspires to become an emergency medicine physician.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115602\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-jabsom-shiramizu-bruce-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"bruce shiramizu\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-jabsom-shiramizu-bruce-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-jabsom-shiramizu-bruce-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-jabsom-shiramizu-bruce.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Shiramizu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;As an undergraduate Honors student in biology, Jessica approached me with an interest and desire to pursue a research opportunity in the laboratory,&rdquo; said Shiramizu. &ldquo;I was impressed with her disciplined and hard-working ethics which led to her applying to be considered as a St. Baldrick&#8217;s Foundation Summer Fellow at <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>. We are excited that she will be funded through the St. Baldrick&#8217;s Foundation Summer Fellow program.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>St. Baldrick\u2019s dedication to provide funding to support the most promising research and to train early career scientists has not wavered, even amid the <abbr title=\"coronavirus 2019\">COVID-19<\/abbr> pandemic. Since 2005, the St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation has put a high priority on building the pipeline of pediatric researchers by supporting the next generation of childhood cancer research experts whose work may lead to new and innovative therapies for kids with cancer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/jabsom-pediatric-cancer-researcher-welcomes-his-10th-st-baldricks-foundation-summer-research-fellow\/\">Read the full story on <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>糖心Vlog官方 M\u0101noa student Jessica Natale will focus on generating a standardized control of Raman spectroscopy scans to detect pediatric Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[218,31,1363,1106,660,9],"class_list":["post-116432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-cancer","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-manoa-research","tag-pediatrics","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116432"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116474,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116432\/revisions\/116474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}