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] She is one of 66 black women to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States between 1973 and 2012, compared to 22,172 white men.[3] Dr. Green is also the second black woman and the fourth black person ever to earn a doctoral degree in physics from The University of Alabama Birmingham.[4]

Early life and education

Green was orphaned at a young age and raised by her aunt and uncle in St. Louis, Missouri.[5] She attended Alabama A&M University, where she studied physics and earned her bachelor's degree in physics and optics in 2003.[1][2][6] 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, and was also voted Homecoming Queen.[7] She began her pioneering nanoparticle research there.[1][2][6]

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 tested this treatment in animal models.[8]

She is currently a professor at Tuskegee University, where she is continuing her research.[7] Green dedicates much of her spare time to speaking to and mentoring young black students.[1][2][6]

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ "In 39 years, US physics doctorates went to 66 black women—and 22,000 white men". qz.com. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  4. ↑ "UAB - Civil Rights Movement - Hadiyah-Nicole Green". uab.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  5. ↑ "A Story of Perseverance: Hadiyah-Nicole Green Shares Her Path to a Million-Dollar Research Grant". The Root. January 9, 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 "Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green2". www.tuskegee.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  7. 1 2 Brian. "Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green Wins $1.1 million Grant To Develop Laser That Kills Cancer Cells". Black Entrepreneur. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "Gold Nanorod Bioconjugates for Active Tumor Targeting and Photothermal Therapy". Journal of Nanotechnology. 2011: 1–7. doi:10.1155/2011/631753.
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