About Us
Cecilia Shikuma, MD
Director, Hawaii Center for AIDS
Edwin C. Cadman Endowed Chair
Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Bruce Shiramizu, MD
Professor, Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Pharmacology, Dept. of Pediatrics
Lishomwa Ndhlovu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology & Pharmacology
Director, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Dominic Chow, MD, PhD, MPH
Director of the Clint Spencer Clinic
Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Louie Mar Gangcuangco, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Scott Souza, PharmD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Beau Nakamoto, MD, PhD, MSc, MBA
Investigator, Dept. of Medicine
Kalpana Kallianpur, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
Iris Kimura, PhD, ATC, PT
Professor, Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
Iain MacPherson, PhD
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
Investigator, Hawaii Center for AIDS
News
Cris Milne, RN awarded Researcher/Project Manager of the Year
The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaiʻi (RCUH) awarded Cris Milne, an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), “Researcher/Project Manager of the Year” for her decades work at the Hawaii Center for AIDS.
HICFA Nurses honored with Suzanne Richard-Crum Award 2021
The Nurses of the Hawaii Center for AIDS (HICFA) will be awarded the prestigious Suzanne Richard-Crum Award for 2021 at the annual World AIDS Day ceremony on Wednesday, Dec 1, 2021. See World’s AIDS Day Hawaiʻi news report below: See…
COVID-19 Study
If you have recently tested positive for COVID-19, you may be eligible for a study. The H051 Study is title Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Pilot Clinical Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of Telmisartan for the Mitigation of Pulmonary and Cardiac…
International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science 2019
The Hawaii Center for AIDS presented research works at the 10th International AIDS Society Conference in HIV Science held in Mexico City in July 2019. Dr. Lishomwa Ndhlovu co-chaired a session at the HIV/Hepatitis B Cure symposium. He also presented a…
2019 Honolulu AIDS Walk
The Hawaii Center for AIDS joined the community at the 28th Annual Honolulu AIDS Walk held at Kapiolani Park on June 30, 2019.
Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U)
Treatment as Prevention There is still no existing cure for HIV. With advances in HIV research, medications called ‘antiretrovirals’ keep the virus in check and can make the virus ‘undetectable’ in the blood. According to the Centers for Disease Control…