The Trump administration announced it would make major cuts to National Institutes of Health grants. Tennessee gets around $700 million a year in NIH funding. The money goes to universities, hospitals and biomedical companies.
Nashville residents underrepresented in medical research are offering up DNA samples despite their privacy concerns
The “All of Us” research program is focused on recruiting people of color, primarily, to build a diverse, million-patient databank, which Vanderbilt Medical Center will help manage.
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