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Radiochemistry

Director: Ali Younes, PhD

 

Mission

The Radiochemistry facility at Hunter College provides Hunter’s faculty, staff and students with the necessary training and support for both research and academics. In accordance to the New York City Charter and Articles 175 of NYC health code, the Radiochemistry facility at Hunter College is committed to ensure the safety of hunter’s workers and working area. The mission of the facility is threefold:

  • Regulatory Control: Working with the EH&S on license amendments, the facility works on improving and updating the radiation safety training program to be suitable with the recent license update and the NRC regulations.
  • Radiation Safety: Conducting contamination monitoring survey for the radioactive laboratories to ensure safety and good laboratory practice among faculty members and provide fast support and response during any emergency situations.
  • Education and research: Training of faculty, staff and students in radiochemistry techniques. In addition to the evaluation of suitable isotopes and instrumentation for experiments, assist the PI and students in their design of experimental procedures (from setup to cleanup) and publication support.

 

INSTRUMENTATION

Tri-Carb 2910TR Low Activity Liquid Scintillation Analyzer
Tri-Carb 2910TR Low Activity Liquid Scintillation Analyzer
Wizard2 2-Detector Gamma Counter
Wizard2 2-Detector Gamma Counter
Perkin-Elmer Optima 7300 DV spectrometer system
Perkin-Elmer Optima 7300 DV spectrometer system

Licensed radioactive laboratories

  • Prof. Derrick Brazill (803)
  • Prof. Maria Figueiredo-Pereira (827)
  • Prof. Lynn Francesconi (1417 and 1416)
  • Prof. Dixie Goss (1318)
  • Prof. Nancy Greenbaum (1305)
  • Prof. Diego Loayza (913)
  • Prof. Benjamin Ortiz (800 and 800A)
  • Prof. Haulin Zhong (901)
  • Prof. Jennifer Shusterman (1411)
  • Dr. Ali Younes (1321CC)

All laboratories are located in North Building, Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065.

Radiochemistry Consortium at Hunter

The Radiochemistry Consortium at Hunter College of the City University of New York is a unique association of research laboratories where chemists with professional scientific expertise work to address challenges in the nuclear industry, environmental remediation, and in nuclear medicine. The research activities of the research laboratories are focused on improving, understanding and employing radioactive materials in their basic and applied aspects related to the medical, energy and environmental fields.

Faculty Labs

Mike Drain
The Drain Lab

The late Professor Charles Drain
Supramolecular Photonics, Nanomaterials, Phototherapeutics

The Drain Lab research falls broadly into several areas interconnected by the themes of self-assembly and energy transduction: Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Photonics (organic, inorganic and materials chemistry), Combinatorial Chemistry & the molecular recognition of biomolecules (organic and biochemistry), Membrane Electrostatics & Conduction (theoretical and biophysical   chemistry), & Porphyrin Photophysics (physical chemistry).

 

Lynn Francesconi
The Francesconi Lab
Lynn Francesconi, Professor
Inorganic, Radiochemistry

The Francesconi Lab at Hunter in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory are investigating the production and processing of medically required radionuclides such as 225Ac, a promising alpha radionuclides for alpha target therapy, as to supply the medical research and clinic demand. In addition, separations using new materials and Metal Organic Frameworks are being evaluated for sequestration and development of newly radiopharmaceutical generators for supplying radioisotopes. Fundamental studies of the isotope 99Tc, a prevalent product of uranium fission and environmental contaminant are conducted.

 

Spiro Alexandratos
The Alexandratos Lab
Spiro Alexandratos, Professor
Polymer, Environmental Chemistry

The Alexandratos Lab approaches radiochemistry from the standpoint of separations and of sensors. Uranium is the key component of the nuclear fuel cycle and its recovery from seawater would mitigate the problems of terrestrial mining. Fibers are being developed as an environmentally compatible means of harvesting uranium from seawater. The problem is that the uranium is present at only 3.3 parts-per-billion in the presence of numerous other ions in far greater concentrations. A selective ligand must thus be developed that is permanently immobilized on the fiber. A promising approach has focused on bifunctional fibers with amidoxime as the selective ligand. In a separate problem, the removal of uranium from phosphoric acid is an issue of important environmental impact and this is being pursued with aminophosphonates ligands covalently bound to polystyrene beads. Finally, a sensor is being developed with inorganic polymers whose objective is to detect the presence of uranium in the environment.

 

Brian Zeglis
The Zeglis Laboratory
Brian Zeglis, Associate Professor
Radiopharmaceuticals

The research in the Zeglis Laboratory focuses on the design, synthesis, preclinical validation, and clinical translation of novel pharmaceuticals for the imaging and therapy of disease, particularly cancer. The lab is particularly interested in work at the intersection of molecular imaging and bioorthogonal chemistry.

 

Jennifer Shusterman
The Shusterman Lab
Jennifer Shusterman, Assistant Professor
Nuclear, Radiochemistry

The research in the Shusterman Lab is focused on the investigation of isotope production pathways, materials for heavy metal separations, and radiochemical measurements of nuclear reaction properties for application to the nuclear fuel cycle, medicine, forensics and fundamental nuclear science.

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