Carl E. James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education, brings his expertise to a four-year Genome Canada research project focused on Canada鈥檚 Black population.

Genomic Evidence for Precision Medicine for Selected Chronic Diseases Among Black Peoples in Canada 鈥� developed through collaboration with the Centre for Applied Genomics, at SickKids Hospital and McGill Genome Centre 鈥� is an effort to sequence the genomes of 10,000 Black Canadians to ensure equitable health care for an often-understudied population.

By sequencing the nucleotides that make up the participants鈥� DNA and RNA, researchers will gain a better understanding of how diseases affect Canada鈥檚 Black population and develop better precision medicines to target their conditions.

鈥淲e need to encourage these approaches for research, since medical studies often miss the racial diversity of health care recipients,鈥� says James, a renowned sociologist with a research focus on race and ethnic relations. 鈥淚n fact, we need to understand differences in all populations.鈥�

The study is led by four prominent medical researchers: Upton Allen, division head at SickKids Hospital鈥檚 Infectious Diseases and professor at the University of Toronto; Loydie Jerome-Majewska, McGill University Department of Pediatrics professor and co-founder/program lead for the Canadian Black Scientists鈥� Network (CSBN); Juliet Daniel, McMaster University cell biologist and cancer researcher; and OmiSoore Dryden, professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University.

Read the full article in the February 25, 2026 issue of Yfile

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