This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. Hawaii's geographic location as a prominent international port and its strategic proximity to Asia makes it a natural sentinel post from which to monitor the emergence and spread of microbial pathogens and to investigate outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases in the Asia-Pacific region. A fully State-financed state-of-the-art BSL-3/ABSL-3 biocontainment facility is now operational in theHe is one step away from leading his team to the NBA Finals, but MVP candidate Giannis Antetokounmpo once needed a book about Diego Maradona to convince him basketball was his true calling.

Antetokounmpo has been the driving force behind the Milwaukee Bucks' run to the Eastern Conference Finals having averaged 27.7 points and 12.5 rebounds per game in the regular season for a team that had a league-high 60 wins.

The 24-year-old 'Greek Freak', who is of Nigerian descent, has elevated himself to superstar status in his sixth year in the NBA, a journey that seemed unfathomable in 2008 when Spiros Velliniatis first spotted a scrawny 13-year-old child living in poverty in the Sepolia neighbourhood of Athens.

Velliniatis had been scouting immigrant communities in the Greek capital to find potential