Campaign aims to build diverse medical database that includes ‘All of Us’

By , Daily Memphian Updated: June 15, 2022 8:56 PM CT | Published: June 15, 2022 8:45 PM CT
<strong>The National Institutes of Health&rsquo;s All of Us mobile exhibit set up Wednesday, June 15, outside the Orpheum Theatre. The exhibit is traveling across the U.S. to engage communities that have been historically underrepresented in medical research.</strong> (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us mobile exhibit set up Wednesday, June 15, outside the Orpheum Theatre. The exhibit is traveling across the U.S. to engage communities that have been historically underrepresented in medical research. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)

The research mobile exhibit, led by the National Institutes of Health, stops in Memphis this week. 

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Aisling Mäki

Aisling Mäki

Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender. 


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