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IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists - 2009 Honorable Mention

 

Jason Philip Holland one of five Honorable Mention awards associated with the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, his Ph.D. thesis work entitled "Hypoxia-selective copper radiopharmaceuticals."

current address(at time of application)

Email: hollanj3@mskcc.org

Academic degrees

  • Ph.D. Inorganic and Radiochemistry, University of Oxford, 2008
  • M.Sc. Chemistry, University of York, 2004

Ph.D. Thesis

Title Hypoxia-selective copper radiopharmaceuticals

Adviser

Professor Jennifer C. Green

Professor Jonathan R. Dilworth

Essay Hypoxia is a pathological condition where tissue oxygen concentration (pO2) decreases to less then 10% of normal levels and is associated with heart disease, stroke and various cancers. Tumour hypoxia presents a major problem in the clinical management of cancer because low tissue oxygenation confers resistance to both chemotherapy and ionishing radiation and reduces patient survival rates......[full text; pdf file - 162KB]

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