Hadiyah-Nicole Green

Lasers are fun, but have you ever thought of using them to “melt” cancer? Well, that’s what medical physicist Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green has accomplished. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and got a PhD in physics at Morehouse College of Medicine. A major reason Dr. Green got involved in cancer research was because she lost her aunt and uncle to cancer and saw how taxing chemotherapy was on them. As a cancer researcher, she specifically wanted to develop cancer treatments that had fewer negative side-effects. Later in her career, she’d go on to develop this and would establish the Ora Lee Foundation, a cancer research nonprofit named after her late aunt. Dr. Green’s cancer-melting treatment utilizes gold nanoparticles that can attach to individual cancer cells. Upon being heated up by a laser, they would “melt” the cancer cells that they were attached to while sparing healthy cells. Her studies showed that after one 10-minute treatment, tumors in mice were eliminated in just 15 days with no observable side effects. Currently, Dr. Green is fundraising for clinical trials to make her cancer treatment a reality.

Learn more: https://oralee.org/research/

-Pristine