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Victor McKusick wins Japan Prize
Pioneer is sole laureate for prestigious award in genetics
category
Victor A. McKusick, longtime University Professor of
Medical Genetics at the Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, is the 2008 recipient of the
prestigious Japan Prize in medical genetics and
genomics, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan
announced Jan. 16 in Tokyo.
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New support for humanities grad
programs
In a strong show of support for graduate humanities
programs at Johns Hopkins, the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation has pledged more than $4 million to
the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in
the form of two separate grants for this field of
study.
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Patient mistrust extends racial divide in
research
More than three decades after the shutdown of the
notorious Tuskegee study, a team of Johns
Hopkins physicians has found that Tuskegee's legacy of
blacks' mistrust of physicians and deep-seated
fear of harm from medical research persists and is largely
to blame for keeping much-needed African-
Americans from taking part in clinical trials.
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