{"id":554,"date":"2017-08-09T18:54:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T22:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/?page_id=554"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:34:53","slug":"catalytic-anti-cancer-agents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/research-areas\/catalytic-anti-cancer-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalytic Anti-Cancer Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are developing a new type of anticancer agent that works by selectively penetrating into tumor cells and therein catalytically oxidizing these cells to death.\u00a0 These agents are zwitterionic cluster compounds, and the collaborative team (Jie Song Ph.D., Craig L. Hill Ph.D., Shuming Nie, Ph.D. and co-workers) are studying and optimizing all aspects of this chemistry and biology.\u00a0 A start-up company was just founded (summer, 2017).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/files\/2018\/11\/anticancer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/files\/2018\/11\/anticancer.png 1200w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/files\/2018\/11\/anticancer-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/files\/2018\/11\/anticancer-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/files\/2018\/11\/anticancer-1024x341.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">X-ray single crystal structure of <strong>[V<sub>6<\/sub>O<sub>13<\/sub>{(OCH<sub>2<\/sub>)<sub>3<\/sub>CNH<sub>3<\/sub>}<sub>2<\/sub>]<\/strong> (VPOA-6) in a ball-and-stick representation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Two crystallization water molecules are present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Red: oxygen;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900\">yellow: vanadium;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">black: carbon;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #999999\">gray: hydrogen;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">blue: nitrogen<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Patent pending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are developing a new type of anticancer agent that works by selectively penetrating into tumor cells and therein catalytically <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/research-areas\/catalytic-anti-cancer-agents\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3857,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-554","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3857"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554\/revisions\/853"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}