A research team led by Atlanta’s historically Black Morehouse School of Medicine is set to lead a revolutionary project to study cancer disparities among people of African descent.
It’s called team SAMBAI: Societal, ancestry, molecular and biological analyses of inequalities.
It’s funded by a $25 million grant, the first of its kind awarded to a historically Black college and medical school, and to be led by a Black woman, researcher Dr. Melissa Davis.
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