STEM-Medical Researcher

Robert Lee Satcher Jr. (1965 -)
Robert Lee Satcher Jr., a specialist in child and adult bone cancer, a chemical engineer, and astronaut was born on...
January 27th, 2023

Kenneth Olden (1938- )
Kenneth Olden, a cell biologist, biochemist, and cancer researcher, is the founding dean at the School of Public Health of...
May 10th, 2022

Thomas LaVeist (1961- )
Dr. Thomas LaVeist is a lead researcher in studies about the racial disparities that influence or impact an individual’s health...
August 19th, 2021

John Wallace (1925-1992)
Medical researcher John Wallace was born March 8, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Howard University in 1947 with an honors bachelors in...
October 21st, 2018

May Edward Chinn (1896-1980)
May Edward Chinn is renowned for her work in medical research. In 1926 she became the first African American woman to graduate...
March 11th, 2018

Harold Amos (1918-2003)
The first African American to chair a department of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Harold Amos was an esteemed teacher, researcher, and...
December 17th, 2017

Julian H. Lewis (1891-1989)
An accomplished scientist, physician, and educator, Dr. Julian Herman Lewis challenged racism in the American medical and scientific communities in his prominent 1942...
December 13th, 2017

William Harry Barnes (1887-1945)
Over the course of three decades in the early twentieth century, Dr. William Harry Barnes greatly influenced the field of...
December 3rd, 2017