Minority / Underserved

While Cures Within Reach is disease-agnostic and geography-agnostic, some of our funding partners have strategic interests in specific population groups.  Therefore, in addition to our disease-specific and geographic repurposing communities, we have a Minority and Underserved Repurposing Community to support Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts that utilizes the speed and cost-effectiveness of testing already approved therapies in new indications to improve the quality and length of life of minority and underserved patients as well as to support minority and underserved researchers.

We support Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts by finding and funding clinical repurposing projects:

• Led by Minority and Underserved Researchers in any disease area
• To positively impact Health Disparities within communities of color
• To impact patients living in low and low-middle income countries (LMICs, as defined by the World Bank)

As we develop and grow this Community, Cures Within Reach thanks our early funding partners:

for its support of our first project in Health Disparities: “Can Vitamin D reduce the burden of COVID-19?” focusing on Black and Hispanic Chicagoans,

and:

for its support of Minority and Underserved communities and researchers, including:

• Treating Tuberculosis with a Lipid Lowering Drug in Nigeria
• Testing the Safety of a Repurposed Drug to Treat Snakebite in Kenya 
• Repurposing Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for the Treatment of Pediatric Malnutrition in South Africa (completed)
• Infectious disease in Kenya: pending
• Rare Pediatrics in Vietnam: pending