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Skin Deep: How Melanin Impacts Your Body’s Response To Drugs

Skin Deep: How Melanin Impacts Your Body’s Response To Drugs

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Skin Deep: How Melanin Impacts Your Body’s Response To Drugs

  • Scientific research is becoming more inclusive, but one area that’s still lacking this diversity is pre-clinical research. Without knowing how medications will react to different ancestries and skin tones, millions of people are being put at risk. Our experts discuss the effect melanin has on a drug’s efficacy and changes the industry can implement right now that will make a big difference.

Host: Elizabeth Westfield.

Producer: Kristen Farrah.

Guests: Sophie Zaaijer, Molecular Biologist, Consultant for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Clinical Trials; Simon Groen, Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology, University of California at Riverside


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