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Dr. Veena Rao: Demystifying BRCA1 in African-American Women to Save Lives
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) physicians, faculty and students are engaged in
an intense and mission-driven quest to solve answers to some of the world’s most pressing
cancer-related questions. One specific group of African Americans is driving MSM professor
and co-director of the Cancer Biology Program in the OB/GYN department Veena Rao,
Ph.D., who has spent the better part of her scientific career trying to understand the BRCA1
gene and its mutations in order to facilitate early detection and achieve novel treatment breakthroughs for women
with breast cancer. Research she and her team are conducting has the potential to
not only change lives, but save lives.
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