Juliet Daniel is being recognized for her groundbreaking work on triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive cancer that disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic women.
Young Black Canadians need more support pursue their science and tech research dreams, and need to see themselves represented among scientists, the cancer biologist and advocate says.
The study will not only have value for Black residents of Shelburne, N.S., who experienced elevated cancer rates, but for further examination of links between environmental racism and chronic diseases.