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Tomi Akinyemiju

Professor in Population Health Sciences
Population Health Sciences
215 Morris St Ste 210, PO Box 104023, Durham, NC 27701

Selected Grants


Quality Improvement to Advance Access and Equity to Guideline Concordant Care

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Gilead Sciences, Inc. · 2025 - 2029

Disparate Survival, Disparate Workforce: An Integrated Approach to Improving Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes and Diversity in the Oncology Workforce

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research · 2024 - 2029

Experiences of Discrimination, Dysbiosis, and Racial Disparities in Ovarian Cancer

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2023 - 2028

Elucidating racial and ethnic differences in functional effects of the vaginal microbiome in ovarian cancer

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2027

Systemic Racism and Biological Embodiment of Risk in Breast Cancer Mortality

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2022 - 2027

Delineating the underlying reasons for the racial disparity in gastric cancer incidence in the United States

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2022 - 2027

Duke Preparing Research Scholars in Biomedical Sciences- Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2022 - 2027

Capturing Patient Reported Data to Impact Disparities in Metastatic Breast Cancer

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2024 - 2027

A Role of Multilevel Healthcare Access Dimensions in Ovarian Cancer Disparities

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026

REGARDS-MI-4

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Weill Cornell Medicine · 2022 - 2026

Exploring the impact of conditioning regimen selection on clinical outcomes and quality of life in

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2024 - 2026

Plasma proteins associated with socioeconomic status and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Westat, Inc. · 2024 - 2025

Integrating Biology and Access to Understand Metastatic Breast Cancer Disparities

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2022 - 2025

Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions to Enhance Equity in Oncology Clinical Trials

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by V Foundation for Cancer Research · 2024 - 2025

Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions to Enhance Equity in Oncology Genomic Testing (Patient Navigation)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by V Foundation for Cancer Research · 2023 - 2025

Understanding and Addressing Cancer Disparities Among American Indians in North Carolina: Gastrointestinal Cancers

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Wake Forest University · 2024 - 2025

DIRECT - Diversifying Research and Experiential Learning in Cancer Training

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Emerson Collective · 2021 - 2024

A Role of Multilevel Healthcare Access Dimensions in Ovarian Cancer Disparities

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024

Understanding Cancer Health Disparities Among American Indians in North Carolina

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2022 - 2024

Understanding Cancer Health Disparities Among American Indians in North Carolina -- Lung Cancer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by V Foundation for Cancer Research · 2023 - 2024

Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions to Enhance Equity in Oncology Genomic Testing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by V Foundation for Cancer Research · 2022 - 2023

Metabolic Syndrome and Epigenetic Markers of Breast Cancer in Nigerian Women

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2021

Sociome: Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Multi-Omic Data to Predict Cancer Prognosis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Carnegie Mellon University · 2020 - 2021

External Relationships


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