In a workshop held by the FDA in partnership with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) on February 13, 2019 in Wardman Park, Washington D.C., researchers from various institutions discussed the current state of African American outcomes and treatment in...
The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research onboards Reagan W. Durant, MD, associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Division of Preventative Medicine. Dr. Durant will serve as a new principal investigator. The Deep South RCMAR A...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded a $6.7 million grant to the University of Michigan as part the RDoC Initiative—the Research Domain Criteria Initiative—which uses neuroscience and behavioral science to better understand the structure of mental disorders...
The Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) recently held an event with Black community leaders in downtown Atlanta. They were joined by a panel of medical professionals and community leaders and the discussion centered on the disparities in health care for African...
Stony Brook University’s INDUCER program (Increasing Diversity in Undergraduate Cancer Research and Education Research) aims to tack the issue of lack of diversity in clinical research even though, for example, the incidence of cancer among African-Americans...
A Kaiser Permanente Division of Research (DOR) real-world observational study has impacted new practice guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Published in Clinical Gastroenterology and...
