Fund Black scientists

Kelly R Stevens; Kristyn S Masters; P I Imoukhuede; Karmella A Haynes; Lori A Setton; Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez; Muyinatu A Lediju Bell; Padmini Rangamani; Shelly E Sakiyama-Elbert; Stacey D Finley; Rebecca K Willits; Abigail N Koppes; Naomi C Chesler; Karen L Christman; Josephine B Allen; Joyce Y Wong; Hana El-Samad; Tejal A Desai; Omolola Eniola-Adefeso

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.011

Fund Black scientists

Cell. 2021 Feb 4;184(3):561-565. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.011. Epub 2021 Jan 26.

Authors

Kelly R Stevens¹, Kristyn S Masters², P I Imoukhuede³, Karmella A Haynes⁴, Lori A Setton³, Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez⁵, Muyinatu A Lediju Bell⁶, Padmini Rangamani⁷, Shelly E Sakiyama-Elbert⁵, Stacey D Finley⁸, Rebecca K Willits⁹, Abigail N Koppes⁹, Naomi C Chesler¹⁰, Karen L Christman¹¹, Josephine B Allen¹², Joyce Y Wong¹³, Hana El-Samad¹⁴, Tejal A Desai¹⁵, Omolola Eniola-Adefeso¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Bioengineering, Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: ksteve@uw.edu.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
⁴ Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁵ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
⁶ Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁷ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁹ Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁰ Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
¹¹ Department of Bioengineering and Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
¹² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹³ Department of Biomedical Engineering and Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Electronic address: lolaa@umich.edu.

PMID: 33503447
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.011

Abstract

Our nationwide network of BME women faculty collectively argue that racial funding disparity by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) remains the most insidious barrier to success of Black faculty in our profession. We thus refocus attention on this critical barrier and suggest solutions on how it can be dismantled.

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / economics*
Black or African American*
Financial Management*
Humans
National Institutes of Health (U.S.) / economics
Racial Groups
Research Personnel / economics*
United States