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Maryland founder Yusuf Henriques wants to make genomic data more accessible with his new startup. By Michaela Althouse / STAFF
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Yusuf Henriques believes our understanding of genes and medicine is incomplete without more people of color and women in clinical research trials.
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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people picked up an indoor hobby or two. For DC founder Yusuf Henriques, it was hackathons.
At the time, Henriques co-created a virtual hackathon on racism and healthcare from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which led him to look closer at a particular aspect of healthcare.
“We started looking at the structural racism that has been built into the system, lack of access, not enough women and minorities in clinical trials,” Henriques told Technical.ly….