For the last five years, Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, a physicist and cancer researcher, has fought to fund her cancer treatment technology.
, a venture capital fund serving underrepresented entrepreneurs, and an expert in funding Black startups, discussed the funding woes of yet another Black woman with a health care innovation.
Despite these promising early results, she has not been able to attract corporate or government interest in her research.2011 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science As of 2020, the funding gap has narrowed, but African American/Black applicants are still 7% less likely to receive R01 grants than white applicants,
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