Fund Black Scientists

Date
Friday, April 30, 2021 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Audience
students, staff, faculty, alumni, local science community
Location

The Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) at UCSF presents a live panel to address the need to fund black scientists by implementing institutional changes. The conversation’s goal is to shine a light on the barriers minority scientists face and discuss a set of detailed action items that would foster an optimal framework for equity and inclusion in the biosciences through federal and private funding agencies.

Moderator

Tejal Desai, professor and chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco

Panelists

Name Title Organization
Lola Eniola-Adefeso Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Education University of Michigan
Marie Bernard Chief Officer Scientific Workforce Diversity, NIH
Noni Byrnes Director Center for Scientific Review (CSR), NIH
Hana El-Samad Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Francisco