Morehouse School of Medicine recently launched the Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine. The institute, which is the first of its kind at historically, Black colleges and universities, will serve as a national hub for genetic information on people of African descent.
This creation of the institute comes from data from the National Institute of Health, which shows that less than 2% of genetic information being studied originates from people of African ancestry, creating a huge gap in genome research.
Dr. Melissa Davis, who serves as the director of the Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine, says the key to closing research gaps is diversity and inclusion.
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