By Birmingham Times Image: CBS News When President Donald Trump paid a visit to the National Institutes of Health last March, the leads at the vaccine research center explained their life-saving mission. The key to that mission was a 34-year-old doctor named Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett. “I was just there telling the task force […]
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Fauci answers questions from the Black community on coronavirus vaccine
By Sandra Jordan Of The St. Louis American With the U.K. starting the Pfizer-BioNTech version of coronavirus vaccines, Canada approving their use this week, the U.S. is expected to grant Emergency Use Authorization to Pfizer this week on its COVID-19 vaccine, and Moderna next week. The anticipation of a vaccine […]
BLACK SCIENTISTS SAY THEY FACE RACISM BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE LAB
by Dana Givens Photo: iStock.com/bluecinema The recent Black Lives Matter protests have sparked new dialogues on race in the United States. Science is also having its conversations about diversity in STEM, while Black scientists are speaking up about their own experiences of racism in their field. According to a 2016 survey from the National Science Foundation, 6% […]
Black Women Founders Bring COVID-19 Screening Stations To Schools, Offices, Prisons & More
By Phyllis Coley June 23, 2020 Two entrepreneurs – Lynda M. Dorman, CEO, and Carolyn E. Howell, President of Orange Wall Enterprises – have made history as the first Black women to sign a distribution and licensing deal for autonomous screening stations that recognize the initial symptoms of COVID-19. These stations, produced by Promobot, […]
Black-Owned laboratory uses artificial intelligence-based drug discovery platform to develop COVID-19 treatment
Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent 6/4/2020 Darnisha Harrison, Louisiana State University grad and founder and CEO of Georgia-based Ennaid Therapeutics, LLC. PHOTO COURTESY OF NNPA The novel coronavirus has ravaged most of the globe, but in the U.S., African Americans and other communities of color have disproportionately born the […]
Chasing A Cure: NIH Scientist Kizzmekia Corbett Works To Find A Vaccine To End Coronavirus
(L-R) Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images; Photo by the National Institute of Health; Photo by Allison Shelley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images. She is leading the research team at the National Institute of Health trying to find a treatment that will save countless lives. Written […]
African American Scientist Breaks Ground in Cancer Research
The technology used by Dr. Green, who received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to expand her nanoparticle cancer treatment research, doesn’t require chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. (Photo: YouTube) By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia April 1, 2020 Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, an assistant […]