Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center will serve as the national coordinating center for a new epidemiological cohort study among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AsA-NHPI). Fred Hutch was awarded a seven-year, $38.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to coordinate the effort to gather important health information on these populations, which are underrepresented in biomedical research.
The study is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, along with four other NIH institutes. Researchers at the University of Hawaii, Stanford Medicine, University of Chicago, Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health and NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center will lead community engaged efforts to recruit and follow individuals from AsA-NHPI populations residing in their geographic areas.
