A research team led by Atlanta’s historically Black Morehouse School of Medicine is set to lead a revolutionary project to study cancer disparities among people of African descent.

It’s called team SAMBAI: Societal, ancestry, molecular and biological analyses of inequalities.

It’s funded by a $25 million grant, the first of its kind awarded to a historically Black college and medical school, and to be led by a Black woman, researcher Dr. Melissa Davis.