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Fellows receive awards for minority health, health disparities research
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Tracy M. Layne, PhD, MPH, and Candace Middlebrooks, PhD, received inaugural awards from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
The William G. Coleman Jr., PhD, Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Innovation Award supports research ideas and concepts that have the potential for high impact in the areas of minority health and health disparities research.
“Increasing the number of investigators studying diseases that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minority populations is a key focus for National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities,” institute director Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD, said in a press release. “This award provides opportunities for investigators who are early in their careers to conduct studies that we hope will help advance the science of minority health and health disparities.”
Layne is a postdoctoral fellow in the metabolic epidemiology branch of the NCI’s division of cancer epidemiology and genetics.
Layne’s project — “Prospective Metabolomic Profiling and Prostate Cancer Risk in African American Men” — seeks to identify biochemical characteristics of prostate cancer in black men that may contribute to their excess disease burden.
Middlebrooks is a postdoctoral fellow at National Human Genome Research Institute. Her project — “Investigation of Genetic Risk Modifiers of Leg Ulcer Development in Sickle Cell Patients Using Whole Exome Sequencing and Characterization” — will examine the germline whole exome sequences of patients to identify genetic variation that may contribute to increased risk for leg ulcers.
The honorees each will receive $15,000 for supplies and services.