More than a little bit.

lagonegirl

Green, who lost her parents young, was raised by her aunt and uncle. While still at school, her aunt died from cancer, and three months later her uncle was diagnosed with cancer, too. Green went on to earn her degree in physics at Alabama A&M University, being crowned Homecoming Queen while she was at it, before going on full scholarship to University of Alabama in Birmingham to earn her Masters and Ph.D. There Green would become the first to work out how to deliver nanoparticles into cancer cells exclusively, so that a laser could be used to remove them, and then successfully carry out her treatment on living animals.

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her studies thus far are only on head and neck cancers, but her theory is this treatment platform would work on all types of cancers. But needs $$$$ to keep doing research.

It seems the issue is how to target the cancer cells and in her head and neck cancer tests, she had success in mice by utilizing fda approved immunotherepy antibodies to deliver nano particles to mark the tumor. Then she could proceed to blast the shit out of cancer with fuckin lasers.

she was ready or prepared when opportunity arose

I’m so proud of her. I wish more young black women would go into science.

#BLACKGIRLMAGIC

mamaduafe

Yes!!!!! If she really does cure cancer, watch her name & face disappear behind some white man.

yamino

Don’t let it happen! She deserves all the credit.

thehighpriestofreverseracism

I just found out about Essence Bowman, she died this week after she got hit by a car during a police arrest.

The police didn’t even contact her family to tell her what happened to her….the family found out from the hospital.

She was also mentally ill and leaves behind 3 beautiful children

It’s such a disgrace that we haven’t heard much of her story…we need to seriously do right be the countless black women who are lost to violence and protect the ones that are living

she has a gofundme page that has raised about 300 dollars out of 20k goal to cover her expenses: https://www.gofundme.com/essencebowman

Essence’s sister is on twitter under the acc: @irreverentfash

Send her your condolences and please boost her tweets

SAY HER NAME, BLACK WOMEN MATTER