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.
The group will be made up of researchers from the U.S., Ghana, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Davis recently sat down with WABE’s “Morning Edition” to discuss how this project will hyperfocus on inequities in cancer research, particularly studying breast cancer in Black women and survival rates.
