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Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones

WEBDr. Sophia Bethena Jones. Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones was a Canadian born physician and Canada’s first black woman to earn a medical degree. She was born in Chatham, Ontario, one of the northern termini of the Underground Railroad into Canada. A sizeable population there were Blacks that escaped from slavery.

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STEMM & Cancer Health Equity (SCHEQ) Foundation Announces …

WEBPress Release. NEW YORK, NY – March 26, 2024 – STEMM & Cancer Health Equity Foundation, a minority-led nonprofit organization, today announced that it will be presenting its first poster at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California …

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Dr. Marie Maynard Daly

WEBDr. Marie Maynard Daly was a biochemist and advocate for minorities in STEM. Originally from Queens, New York, she always showed an interest in science modeled after her father, an immigrant from the West Indies.

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Dr. Monique Mendes

WEBMay 31, 2024 – June 4, 2024 Start: May 31, 2024 1:00 PM (CT) End: April 10, 2024 1:00 PM (CT) SCHEQ will be attending the

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Mary Winston Jackson

WEBMary Winston Jackson was a mathematician and aerospace engineer, and the first African American Female engineer to work at NASA. Born in Hampton, Virginia, she always had a gift for arithmetic.

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NewYorkBIO Patient Engagement Summit

WEBNewYorkBIO partners with patient advocacy groups to connect leaders in the patient community with leaders in the biotech and life science fields. The Summit features panel discussions with representatives from across the patient and life science ecosystems. NewYorkBIO focuses on linking patients with companies and researchers …

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Dr. George Robert Carruthers

WEBSCHEQ attended the 10th Annual DHNY (Digital Health New York) Healthcare Investment Trends 2024 that was hosted on Tuesday evening, March 26, at J.P. Morgan.

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Mary Elliot Hill, MS

WEBMary Elliott Hill was an organic and analytical chemist who researched ultraviolet light and used it to develop more precise analytical methods. She was born under segregation in North Carolina. She received her BS (1929) in Chemistry from Virginia State College for Negroes, or what is now known as Virginia State University ( VSU ).

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Dr. Courtenay Felix Bartholomew

WEBDr. Courtenay Felix Bartholomew. Dr. Courtenay Bartholomew was a Trinidadian research physician who was the first to diagnose AIDS in the English-speaking Caribbean. He grew up in Port of Spain, Trinidad and loved studying the sciences as a child. He interned at St. Vincent Hospital and obtained an Internal Medicine …

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Dr. Nazeer Ahmad

WEBDr. Nazeer Ahmad was a Guyanese born soil scientist whose work on tropical soils supported farmers all over the world in increasing the health and abundance of their crops.

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Rochelle Prosser, RN, CLNC

WEBSCHEQ attended the 10th Annual DHNY (Digital Health New York) Healthcare Investment Trends 2024 that was hosted on Tuesday evening, March 26, at J.P. Morgan.

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Dr. Manley Interview on the NCI Inside Cancer Careers Podcast …

WEBDr. Manley appeared on Season 1 Episode 9 of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Inside Cancer Careers Podcast hosted by Dr. Oliver Bogler on July 20, 2023.Dr. Bogler is the Director of the Center for Cancer Training at the NCI. He oversees NCI’s training and career development programs, which prepare scientists both within …

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Lung Cancer Screening Listening Session at Hasselbring Senior …

WEBDr. Manley from SCHEQ will be speaking on a Panel with Drs. Jamie Studts and Lisa Carter-Bawa on April 2 from 4- 6 PM at the Hasselbring Senior Center in Flint, MI. This is part of the Community Listening Sessions on Lung Cancer Screening that are organized by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute - Wayne State University …

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Takeaways from the 2023 AACR Conference on the Science of …

WEBDr. Eugene Manley attended the 16 th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved that was held in Orlando, FL at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa from September 29 – October 2, 2023. This meeting seems to be getting larger every year, and it is great …

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NewYorkBIO Annual Meeting

WEBWe will attend the 2023 NewYorkBIO Annual Meeting at Convene on September 27, 2023. This is a great event to learn about all of the healthcare innovation in New York.

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