Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received a $14.6 million grant to support their investigations into whether early markers of Alzheimer’s that have shown promise for predicting the disease in Caucasian populations can also serve as a predictor for...
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NMA’s Rodney Hood, MD & Its Mission to Take the Politics out of Vaccine Development
Recently, a panel of Black doctors came together on their own in a bid to independently vet the COVID-19 vaccines under development as the National Medical Association (NMA) COVID-19 Commission on Vaccines and Therapeutics. This was possibly in response to growing...
Whites Use Portals; Blacks Mail BIDMC-led Study Finds When Targeting EMR-based Patient Recruitment for Gout Study
Researchers increasingly turn to electronic medical records (EMR) to encourage participation in clinical trials. Few studies have methodically and systematically compared the use of EMR with more traditional patient recruitment strategies to measure impact and...
Mayor of Newark & CEO of University Hospital Seek to Quell Fears in Black Community about Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
Apparently minority communities, such as Black Americans, are expressing concerns about the Moderna (mRNA-1273) clinical trial in various communities such as Newark, New Jersey, where University Hospital Newark will conduct a major vaccine trial. Other locations in...
Trial Sites Continue to Fall Short of Minority Recruitment Goals for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Recent media reports further highlight that trial site organizations across the nation are struggling to attract sufficient numbers of minority participants to participate in COVID-19 vaccine trial sites. TrialSite reported recently of such challenges in African...
Cedric the Entertainer & SUTC Promote Research Awareness to Minority Populations Disproportionately Impacted by Cancer
Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C), a non-profit organization out of Hollywood entertainment world that supports cancer research, recently teamed with Cedric the Entertainer to bring more awareness of cancer research to People of Color, including African Americans. The star of...
ASCO & ACCC Join Forces to Boost African American & Latino Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials
Two prominent forces in United States-based cancer research came together to drive greater diversity in clinical research. For too long, clinical trial participation hasn’t represented the demographics of the American population at large. The American Society of...
Racial Disparities in Cancer Enter the Spotlight—Again
Blacks “have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any racial/ethnic group in the U.S. for most cancers,” according to the 2019-2021 American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans. Recognition of racial disparities in cancer is...
NCAA & NFL Champion Now Engages African American Community to Participate in Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials
Super Bowl Champion Michael Clayton has stepped up to address the topic of diversity in clinical trials generally, and specifically engage in the community to drive more awareness and activation around Alzheimer’s disease. African Americans are twice as likely to fall...
Diversity Matters: Dr. Asefa Mekonnen on How Deep & Profound Issues around Trust & Fear can be Overcome for Greater Diversity in Research
Dr. Asefa Mekonnen, MD, FACP, is a pulmonologist and active practitioner as a partner at the Internal Medicine Group in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Mekonnen also happens to be an investigator with Meridian Clinical Research—a research site active in the Moderna mRNA-1273...
SWOG Research Reveals Publicly-Financed Clinical Trials Ensure Far More African American Participation than Industry: Still Not Enough However
Ethnic minorities have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health crisis. TrialSite News has reported that in some regions African Americans die at up to three times the rates of others, for example. But our experience with the...
Michigan State University Study Reveals Minority Children Die at Higher Rates
Two Michigan State University and Spectrum Health researchers have uncovered that Black and Hispanic children admitted to pediatric intensive care units for cancer treatment die at increasingly higher rates than do Caucasian children. Study Background...
Engaging Racial and Ethnic Minority Patient Populations in COVID-19 Clinical Trials
CTTI is hosting a timely webinar Thursday June 18 at Noon ET to discuss the importance and urgency of meaningful engagement of racial and ethnic minority communities in COVID-19 clinical trials. Using insights gleaned from a survey of key stakeholders across the...
Tufts CSDD Studies 371 Clinical Trials & Finds Ethnic Minority Groups Severely Underrepresented
Blacks and Latinos, hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, are woefully underrepresented during clinical trials for novel drugs according to a report by the Tufts Center of Drug Development. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration emphasized that the lack of diverse...
NIH Awards Georgetown and Howard Universities to Support Clinical and Translational Research in Nation’s Capital
The Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) received a $24.3 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science—part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....
Philadelphia’s ‘COVID-19 Hospital’ Embraces Diverse Clinical Research Portfolio to Fight COVID-19
Upon the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and all that has come along with this unprecedented event, Temple University Hospital has significantly responded with a diversified clinical research program—including participation in a variety of clinical trials that are...
COVID-19 Killing African Americans at Horrific Rates, Reports Troubling AP Analysis
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps through America, Black populations, already vulnerable to a host of social determinant of health indicators, are disproportionately hit hard in a disturbing trend where observers indicate African Americans die at far higher rates than...
State of the Science for Multiple Myeloma: Change in the Right Direction
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...
Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research Names Principal Investigator
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...
University of Michigan Awarded $6.7m to Study how Social Determinants of Health Impacts Brain Development
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...