Global multiple awards winning Nigeria’s Professor of medicine ,Dr Samuel Achilefu is being celebrated again for inventing high-tech infrared goggles Cancer killer equipment.
The new equipment which enable Doctors to see cancer cells during surgery. , would also ensure that no tumour cell is left unremoved. A blue light glows when it’s spotted.
Professor Samuel,who owns 59 patents in USA had won the 2014 St. Louis Award. He also won the 2011 and 2015 St. Louis Innovator Award respectively.
The ace innovator is Vice Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine.
He is the Director of the Washington University Molecular Imaging Center and Theranostic Innovation Program.
He is the Co-Director of the Center for Multiple Myeloma Nanotherapy and Co-Leader of the Oncologic Imaging Program of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University.
The medical exuert is a Professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biophysics, and biomedical engineering. –