Joe Yost is PI on NIH R25 award entitled “Genomics Summer Research for Minorities: A Pathway to Promote Diversity in Science Research.” This grant is $1.3M for five years, to bring Underrepresented Minorities undergraduates (12 per year) into a program to give them exposure to Genomics and mentor them to apply to graduate or Medical school.
More about the National Human Genome Research Institute's Minority Diversity Action Plan can be found here.