Lieber Institute partners with Black community leaders to unlock secrets of the brain: ‘We will not be left behind’

A tinny buzzing sound echoed through a third-floor laboratory of a building on North Wolfe Street. Perched on a stool, Dr. Thomas Hyde held an electric dental drill — the instrument he and his colleagues have found works the best for delicately extracting tissue samples. Another researcher handed him a dull pink slice of someone’s brain about the size and shape of a chicken cutlet.