News
September 23, 2026
PAC-AID is sponsoring an in-person special seminar on Thursday, October 8,
2026, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM HST in the Sullivan Conference Center at the
University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center. Igor Shuryak, MD, PhD, Associate
Professor of Radiation Oncology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center,
presents “How do you know a causal model is right? Validating treatment-effect
estimates when there is no ground truth.”
August 24, 2026
The next PAC-AID Talk is Friday, September 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM HST on Zoom.
Sovanlal Mukherjee, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minnesota, presents “Next-generation AI for visually occult pancreatic
cancer detection in a low-prevalence setting with longitudinal stability and
multi-institutional generalisability.”
June 22, 2026
PAC-AID will soon announce a call for applications for the Fall 2026 cycle
of its Pilot Projects Program — and we want investigators across Hawaiʻi and the
Pacific to be ready.
June 21, 2026
More than $12 million in federal funding has spurred researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center and the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) to convert a garage-sized, air-conditioned, ground-floor room at the Cancer Center in Kakaʻako into Hawaiʻi’s first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence data center.
June 14, 2026
The PACAID COBRE program website is live. Check back here for pilot grant
calls, workshop announcements, and program news.
