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•	02/23/2009 Helen Altonn from The Honolulu Starbulletin reports about the findings resulting from the collaborative effort between Dr. Liu and our laboratory in today's issue.
•	01/30/2009 The collaborative effort between Dr. Jun O. Liu from Johns Hopkins and our laboratory was recently highlighted in a press release: "Teaching an old drug new tricks" - Leprosy medicine holds promise as therapy for autoimmune diseases. Click here for more information.
•	12/01/2008 The German Pfizer Research Prize for Medicine 2008 was awarded to Dr. Christine Peinelt for "her ground-breaking work in the field of immune responses". The prize honors Dr. Peinelt's pivotal contribution to the elucidation of CRAC channels in 2006. Read more here (in German).
•	11/12/2008 Research study conducted at the University of Homburg/Saar in Germany leads to publicatin in Nature Cell Biology co-authoring Dr. Annette Lis.
•	09/15/2008 Clay Wakano , graduate student in Dr Turner's laboratory, successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis in Molecular Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
•	08/29/2008 Shekinah Eugenio, NIDDK STEP-UP High School Program intern student places first amongst 11 graders for her presentation at the national scientific convention in Bethesda, MD.
•	08/01/2008 Dr. Suhel Parvez was awarded a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to continue his research in Germany.
•	07/14/2008 Ingo Lange, graduate student in the Drs Fleig and Penner laboratory, successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis in Biology, University of Erlangen, Germany.
•	06/09/2008 QCBR Collaboration with Dr. Yasuo Mori and Dr. Hiroshi Takeshima leads to publication in Nature Medicine.
•	09/05/2007 Marifel Barbasa, NIDDK-STEP-UP participant, won an "Outstanding Award" for the presention of her summer internship work given at the NIH STEP-UP symposium in Bethesda, Maryland.
•	08/17/2007 Dr. Alexander Stokes joins COBRE, JABSOM, University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
•	07/01/2007 Appointment of Dr. Helen Turner as Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Chaminade University, Honolulu.
•	05/2007 CRAC is more than CRACM1. CRACM2 and CRACM3 also form store-operated calcium channels, QCBR reports in Current Biology.
•	03/28/2007 Senomyx licences QMC's TRPM5 patent rights covering modulation of sweet, bitter and savory tastes.
•	04/27/2006 CRACing the CRAC channel: Science Express - Molecular identification of the store-operated calcium influx pathway CRAC.
•	04/22/2005 Dr. Reinhold Penner nominated chairman of Nanopoint Inc.'s Scientific Advisory Board. Feature in Pacific Business News, print version.
•	03/10/2005 Bret F. Bessac, graduate student in Dr. Fleig's laboratory, successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis in Biomedical Sciences (Physiology), JABSOM, UHM
•	12/9/2004 Cora Rillero, graduate student in Dr. Turner's laboratory, successfully defended her Masters Thesis in Cell Molecular and Biology, JABSOM, UHM.
•	12/6/2004 Nature Medicine ran a Research Highlight on Stokes et al., JEM 19, 2004: Research Highlights - Mast Cells feel too. (2004) Nat. Med. 10: 785. Download here.
•	Helena Morris, PRIDE program intern in Dr. Fleig's laboratory, was awared first prize for her platform presentation at the First Annual NIDDK Undergraduate Research Conference held at UMBC August 2004.
•	08/2004 Mahealani K. Monteilh-Zoller, graduate student in Dr. Fleig's laboratory, successfully defended her Masters Thesis in Biomedical Sciences (Physiology), JABSOM, UHM.
•	7/2003 This week's issue of Cell (114, p191-200) features Carsten Schmitz, Anne-Laure Perraud and Andy Scharenberg's (Seattle) newest work in collaboration with the LCMS: "Regulation of Vertebrate Cellular Mg²⁺Homeostasis by TRPM7" The paper is featured on the journal's cover.
•	12/2002 LCMS to present its latest work on TRPM ion channels at the Leopoldina Symposium on Epithelial Transport of Ions in Health and Disease" in March 2003, Halle, Germany.
•	7/2002 QMC Print Connection article, July 2002 Discoveries at Queen's May Lead to Breakthroughs in the Cure of Major Diseases
•	6/2002 Leigh Anne Bagley, CMB graduate student in Dr. Fleig's laboratory, successfully defended her Masters Thesis on July 14th, 2002
•	5/2002 Dr. Turner's lab to be the first to graduate a masters student of the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program offered through UH.
•	5/2001 Research Findings at Queen's Make International News (pdf)

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