Hadiyah-Nicole Green
Hadiyah-Nicole Green is an American medical physicist known for her development of a novel cancer treatment using laser-activated nanoparticles.[1][2]
Early life and education
Green was orphaned at a young age and raised by her aunt and uncle in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Alabama A&M University, where she studied physics and earned her bachelor's degree in physics and optics in 2003.[1][2][3] Her post-graduate studies were at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, where she earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in physics, in 2009 and 2012 respectively. She began her pioneering nanoparticle research there.[1][2][3]
Career and research
While conducting her doctoral research, Green developed a method to insert nanoparticles into cancer cells but not healthy cells, allowing them to be destroyed by lasers. She then used this treatment successfully in animal models. Her paper on this, "Gold nanorod bioconjugates for active tmor targetting and photothermal therapy" published in 2011 in Journal of Nanotechnology [4]has been cited 15 times according to Google Scholar. [5]
She is currently a professor at Tuskegee University, where she is continuing her research with the support of prestigious grants. Green dedicates much of her spare time to speaking to and mentoring young black students.[1][2][3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Black female physicist pioneers technology that kills cancer cells with lasers". Women in the World in Association with The New York Times - WITW. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- 1 2 3 4 "Alabama scientist, one of nation's few black female physicists, breaks ground in cancer research". AL.com. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- 1 2 3 "Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green2 | Tuskegee University". www.tuskegee.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ↑ [doi:10.1155/2011/631753|http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/631753]
- ↑ Google Scholar