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HBCUs

Meharry Medical College and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Partner to Address Racism in Sciences, Medicine

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and Meharry Medical College, a historically Black medical school in Nashville, Tennessee, are working together to combat racism and bias in medicine and the basic sciences. This partnership could include a joint graduate or medical education program as well as opportunities for students to […]

August 3, 2021

News Roundup

Bloomberg’s Foundation Donates $100 Million to Four Historically Black Medical Schools

With the goal of improving the overall health and wealth of Black Americans, former New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced plans to donate $100 million from his philanthropic organization, Greenwood Initiative, to four historically Black medical schools, according to the New York Times. Around 800 medical students from Charles R. Drew University of Science […]

September 3, 2020

African-American

Morehouse Takes Center Stage in Response to COVID-19’s Impact on Minority Communities

With a $40 million grant, the federal government has asked leaders at Morehouse School of Medicine to mount a widespread, comprehensive fight against COVID-19 in communities that have been hardest hit. The work that MSM will do with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health over the next three years is historic and massive — and getting underway in the middle of the pandemic.

August 17, 2020

African-American

Global Manufacturer of COVID-19 Test Kits Partners with HBCUs to Ensure Safe Return to Campus

On Wednesday, Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world’s largest maker of scientific tools, announced a project to support testing, at no-cost, to the nation’s HBCUs, including establishing national HBCU testing centers to process COVID-19 tests and provide timely results throughout the academic year.

August 12, 2020

African-American

Meharry Is Enlisting Volunteers for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Hildreth Is Ready to Roll Up His Sleeve

When Meharry Medical College begins conducting COVID-19 vaccine trials in a few months, it will face a big challenge: how to inspire trust in the Black community that has reason to mistrust such interventions but stands to benefit the most.

July 10, 2020

African-American

Historically Black Meharry Medical College Joins the COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Network

Meharry Medical College has joined the COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Network and will be “enrolling community members” in studies of a handful of vaccine candidates, announced the Nashville, Tennessee-based historically Black institution on Tuesday. “I am excited given the importance of minority communities taking part in COVID-19 vaccine trials,” said Meharry’s president and CEO Dr. James E. K. Hildreth.

June 30, 2020

African-American

HBCU Meharry Medical College Gets NIH Support to Advance COVID-19 Drug Development

The historically Black Meharry Medical College said on Friday that it will get vital research and technical support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance its development of a drug for patients infected with COVID-19.

May 31, 2020

HBCUs

What Higher Ed Can Learn From Public Health, in the Midst of Covid-19?

Since mid-March, COVID-19 has brought the traditional operations of higher education institutions in the U.S to a grinding halt, forcing students, faculty and staff to move all meetings and classroom engagement to a virtual format.  This decision focuses on the public health of the campus community as administrators have always led with a healthy and safe environment in mind.

May 28, 2020

African-American

Meharry Proposes Consortium of HBCU Med Schools to Tackle COVID-19’s Uneven Toll

The president of the historically Black Meharry Medical College said on Wednesday that a consortium of the nation’s four Black medical schools would be the group best prepared to tackle the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black people and communities of color.

May 27, 2020

COVID-19

Meharry Medical College’s Dr. James E.K. Hildreth Weighs In On COVID-19

Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, infectious disease expert and president of Meharry Medical College, the nation’s oldest and largest historically Black academic health science center, discusses COVID-19, from the nation’s response, to the need for a “new normal,” to HBCUs and, of course, the science behind the novel coronavirus.

April 30, 2020

HBCUs

Meharry Medical College Hopes to Test COVID-19 Anti-Viral in Two Weeks

A scientist at Meharry Medical College, a historically Black institution, said he is two weeks away from testing an anti-virus that could potentially prevent COVID-19, the easily transmittable respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, which has taken 26,708 lives in the U.S. as of Thursday, reported NBC News. With much of those cases disproportionately affecting […]

April 16, 2020

COVID-19

Meharry Medical College Enters Global Race for an Antiviral Drug to Treat COVID-19

For Meharry’s Dr. Donald Alcendor, finding an effective antiviral strategy not only for COVID-19, “but for current viruses within that family and future viruses within that family, is the ultimate strategy.”

April 5, 2020