In late September, Morehouse School of Medicine joined a $46 million grant-funded collaboration that offers the Atlanta-based institution, alongside three other historically Black medical schools, the opportunity to expand genomic research efforts in order to find new ways to study and prevent disease.
The collaboration is funded by the Chan Zuckerburg Initiative and is estimated to bring in $11.5 million directly to MSM in the coming years.
On this edition of “Closer Look,” Dr. Ivory Dean, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s science program manager, and Dr. Rick Kittles, senior vice president of research at MSM, discussed the new partnership and the overall goal of working to advance precision medicine in Black communities and other people of color.
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