At 33, Carson became the youngest head of pediatric neurosurgery in all of the United States. (Read more...)

The Human Genome Project, an effort of international research to determine the sequence of the DNA of the human genome, missed out many variables from the genomes of Africans. (Read more...)

Dr. Williams also founded the first interracial hospital in the United States. (Read more...)

Brian Gitta was a victim of the malaria disease on several occasions. He suffered most especially from undiagnosed malaria on numerous stints despite the blood tests carried out on him with negative results. (Read more...)

Kizzy is part of a team of researchers who in early 2020 helped to develop an mRNA-based vaccine for Covid-19 in collaboration with the biotech firm Moderna. (Read more...)

In 1927, Barnes was the first Black to receive an official board certification in Otolaryngology. (Read more...)

Thanks to the Cardiopad, the populations in rural areas can have their heart conditions monitored, by the best heart specialists in the country, without physical displacement of the latter. (Read more...)

On November 24, 2021, Ibe posted the representation of a black foetus in the womb on social media. The illustration went viral in the medical world and beyond. (Read more...)

Dynamic, passionate, enthused, energetic, determined, and compassionate. These words perfectly fit the profile of Dr. Winifred Byanyima, fondly called Winnie, the lady at the helm of the United Nations program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). (Read more...)

John Amanam rise to fame came from a place of tragedy, an accident that cost his brother a limb. (Read more...)