The phrase “women are the future” is not just a mere phrase; it’s the reality of today’s world. Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is one of the few Black female physicists in the US and one of the first African American women to earn a Ph.D. in physics.
The recent winner of a $1.1 million grant from the Veterans Affairs’ Office of Research & Development will begin clinical trials to develop further a technology she has pioneered that uses laser-activated nanoparticles to treat cancer.
Here are eleven things you should know about Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green.
1. Hadiyah-Nicole Green was orphaned at a young age and raised by her aunt and uncle in St. Louis, Missouri.
2. She was the first in her family to attend college.
3. She attended Alabama A&M University with a full scholarship, where she studied physics with a specialization in optics and a minor in mathematics and earned her bachelor’s degree in physics and optics in 2003.
4. Green continued her education at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, with another full scholarship, where she earned her master’s degree in physics in 2009 and her PhD in physics in 2012.
5. Losing her guardians to cancer led to her interest in developing new cancer treatments.
6. It was after an internship at NASA that Green realized the potential use of lasers in cancer research.
7. Green was a member of a team that developed a laboratory method to insert nanoparticles into cancer cells while avoiding surrounding healthy cells in the USA.
8. In 2016, Green became an assistant professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in the physiology department.
9. She received a $1.1 million grant from the Veterans Affairs’ Office of Research & Development to begin clinical trials.
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10. Dr. Green created the technology that kills cancer cells with a treatment using laser-activated nanoparticles.
11. In 2016, she founded the Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation in memory of her aunt.
