Ms. Horse Grant is a powerful advocate for transforming and empowering underrepresented minorities at the intersection of science and medicine. She leads innovation and strategy, emphasizing diversity of clinical trials throughout multiple sites in Africa and the Caribbean. She advises key aspects of a new $260 million cancer research building, doubling Sylvester’s research footprint. Previously she was chief transformation officer at UCLA Health in Los Angeles, facilitating translation of discoveries from the lab to the clinical environment. She was also a director at Fred Hutch in Seattle, leading a team whose pioneering work to develop a novel biotool for tissue microstructure was recognized with a social impact award. Early in her career at New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, she created the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center for researchers at the intersection of computational medicine and cancer biology.
