Powerful Black Minds - Beyond Entertainment

[EdJo]

Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye.

"In 2016, Prof Olutoye’s brilliance and gifted hands became a global phenomenon when he led a team of doctors in the surgery that saved a 23-week old fetus from a life-threatening tumor. The team brought the baby (Lynlee Hope) out of the womb at 23 weeks old and removed a large tumor (Sacrococcygeal Teratoma) growing on her tail bone, after which they returned the fetus to its mother’s womb to complete the full gestation period of nine months. This feat has generated a worldwide recognition of the baby that was born twice."


Born twice: Baby removed from womb for surgery, then returned - CNN

Prof. Oluyinka Olutoye – The Surgeon With A Difference - Pharmanewsonline

 

[EdJo]

Keith Black (surgeon) - Wikipedia

Keith L. Black (born September 13, 1957) is an American neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of brain tumors and a prolific campaigner for funding of cancer treatment. He is chairman of the neurosurgery department and director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

Black has been a frequent subject of media reports on medical advances in neurosurgery. He was featured in a 1996 episode of the PBS program The New Explorers entitled "Outsmarting the Brain". Esquire included him in its November 1999 "Genius Issue" as one of the "21 Most Important People of the 21st Century." He has been cited as an expert in reports about whether mobile phone use affects the incidence of brain tumors.

He is also noted for his very busy surgery schedule: a 2004 Discover article noted that he performs about 250 brain surgeries per year, and that at age 46 he had "already performed more than 4,000 brain surgeries, the medical equivalent of closing in on baseball’s all-time career hits record." (As of 2009, Black's surgery count had risen to "more than 5,000 operations for resection of brain tumors".)

In 1997, Time magazine featured Black on the cover of a special edition called "Heroes of Medicine". The accompanying article described Black's reputation as a surgeon who would operate on tumors that other doctors would not, as well as aspects of his medical research, including his discovery that the peptide bradykinin can be effective in opening the blood–brain barrier.


Dr. Keith Black

Dr. Black is best known for his discovery that bradykinin, a peptide occurring naturally in the body, was highly effective in opening the blood-brain barrier by causing capillary walls to be leaky. The blood-brain barrier is a protective network of blood vessels which impedes the progress of medication moving from the blood stream to brain tissue. He initially investigated other natural body compounds—leukotrienes—that induce swelling after injury and also make blood vessels leaky. However, Dr. Black explains that "the fantastic thing about bradykinin is that it does not open the barrier to the normal brain—only to tumors". Therefore, chemotherapy can now deal with the tumor itself without damaging delicate brain tissue. A synthetic version of bradykinin can then be delivered directly to the tumor.

Another innovative method based on Dr. Black's research is geared towards strengthening the body's own immune response. The method involves extracting the tumor cells during surgery; culturing the cells in the laboratory; genetically modifying the culture cells; and injecting the genetically engineered product into the patient as a vaccine. Dr. Black explains: "In order for the cancer to survive one of the things it has to do is make itself invisible to the immune system, the first step is to get the immune system to recognize the tumor." After the tumor cells are removed, genetically engineered and re-injected into the patient, "the immune system can now recognize the tumor, identify it, and mount an immune response against it, and develop millions of immune cells to go out throughout the body, find these cancer cells and eradicate them."

 

[EdJo]

Dr. Joy McDaniel Is Creating A Cure For Most Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

The young scientist and her team are aiming to close the mortality gap for black cancer patients.

 

[EdJo]

Also one of the most powerful black minds in modern times.

Jesse Eugene Russell (born April 26, 1948) is an African American inventor. Trained as an electrical engineer at Tennessee State University and Stanford University, and working in the field of wireless communication for over 20 years, Russell has helped to shape the wireless communications industry direction through his leadership and perspectives for standards, technologies as well as new wireless service concepts.
He holds patents[1] and continues to invent and innovate in the emerging area of next generation broadband wireless networks, technologies and services, which is frequently referred to as 4G. Russell was inducted into the United States’ National Academy of Engineering[2] during the Clinton Administration for his innovative contribution to the field of Wireless Communication. He pioneered the field of digital cellular communication in the 1980s through the use of high power linear amplification and low bit rate voice encoding technologies and received a patent in 1992 (US patent #5,084,869) for his work in the area of digital cellular base station design.
Although no one person invented the cell phone, Jesse Russell was one of the key people to the invention of the modern cell phone.

Some of his inventions and innovations:

Patent No. Description
7,437,158 Advanced multi-network client device for wideband multimedia access to private and public wireless networks

7,120,139 Broadband cable telephony network architecture IP ITN network architecture reference model

5,724,665 Wireless communication base station

5,655,003 Wireless terminal having digital radio processing with automatic communication system selection capability

5,608,780 Wireless communication system having base units which extracts channel and setup information from nearby base units

5,257,397 Mobile data telephone

5,084,869 Base station for mobile radio telecommunications systems


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Russell#Innovations_and_patents

Jesse Russell, Sr. | The HistoryMakers

 

[EdJo]

This is the patent for the mobile data telephone.

Patent US5257397 - Mobile data telephone

Our brother Jesse Eugene Russell is one of the masterminds of the modern cellphones. Don't let anybody feed you more lies.

 

[Claudex]

Dr. Ashytey Trebi-Ollennu is a Ghanaian born resident of the United States of America. He is a robotics Engineer at NASA and is the chief engineer of a team that designs robots for NASA missions at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Ashytey Trebi-Ollennu was born in Ghana and begun his education at the Ghana Secondary Technical School. He was the leader of the team that designed the Mars Rover robot that landed on the red planet.

In an interview on BBC, Dr, Ashytey Trebi-Ollennu noted that he had started a project in his home country of Ghana to make a more likable and fun subject. He worked on the Phoenix (spacecraft) that found water on Mars. He is currently working and leading, on robots for the InSight mission.

In 2011 Ashietey formed the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation (GRAF), a nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to motivating and inspiring the next generation of Ghanaians' interest and participation in science and technology.

If you guys don't know, the InSight mission, is the next mission to Mars. That will investigate below the surface of the red planet to study its geology using advanced seismographs.

PS: Props to our brother, for being a powerful black mind. But i think his knowledge should be enjoyed and used by us. Robotics is the present and future, and guys like him should be developing their own agencies and employing black people.

It shall be so in due time. Believe that.

Great thread mano.

 

[King Poetic]

 

[EdJo]

It shall be so in due time. Believe that.

Great thread mano.

Obrigado irmão. Our people needs to know that we are capable of doing anything. The sky is the limit when we decide to focus on what really matters.

 

[King Poetic]

CAN YOU MODS HAVE SOME BALLS AND LEAVE THIS IN THE STICKY THREAD LIKE U DO WITH THAT BULLshyt RANDOM THOUGHTS THREAD.

WE NEED SOMETHING FOR BLACKS ON THIS BOARD AND LURKERS TO LEARN ABOUT WHO OUR ANCESTORS WAS AND DID AND WHAT NEW BLACK MINDS ARE DOING

 

[EdJo]

Hakeem Muata Oluseyi (born James Edward Plummer, Jr) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, and humanitarian. Since 2007, he has been a professor of Physics & Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, currently holding the highest academic rank of Distinguished Research Professor. He is temporarily stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC where he is the Space Sciences Education Manager for NASA's Science Mission Directorate via the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program.

He earned MS and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Stanford University under the mentorship of the late Professor Arthur B. C. Walker Jr. from whom he learned experimental space research. Under Walker's tutelage, Oluseyi helped to design, build, calibrate, and launch the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array, which pioneered normal incidence extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray imaging of the Sun's transition region and corona.


"Meet the "gangsta" physicist who wants to become the next Albert Einstein."

 

[8WON6]

Hakeem Muata Oluseyi (born James Edward Plummer, Jr) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, and humanitarian. Since 2007, he has been a professor of Physics & Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, currently holding the highest academic rank of Distinguished Research Professor. He is temporarily stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC where he is the Space Sciences Education Manager for NASA's Science Mission Directorate via the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program.

He earned MS and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Stanford University under the mentorship of the late Professor Arthur B. C. Walker Jr. from whom he learned experimental space research. Under Walker's tutelage, Oluseyi helped to design, build, calibrate, and launch the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array, which pioneered normal incidence extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray imaging of the Sun's transition region and corona.


"Meet the "gangsta" physicist who wants to become the next Albert Einstein."

who wrote that last sentence?

 

[King Poetic]

Just as i expect..minimum responses

But nikkas love talking about bedwenches and bed bucks everyday but something informational and educational about blacks nikkas by passed it like responsibility

 

[EdJo]

who wrote that last sentence?

It is actually from the page that owns the video that i posted about him. I don't know if you can see the video. Sometimes it shows, and then it doesn't show. Basically, he said something like "Society didn't tell me i was a scientist. They told me i was a gangsta". The guy has an amazing journey, an inspirational journey. He used to carry a gun when he was younger, and dropped out from college in the first time he attended. But later was able to get back on track and it is now a successful physicist.


This is another good video to know more about Hakeem:

 

[EdJo]

Chinedu Echeruo: Meet the Nigerian who sold his startup to Apple for $1 billion

Chinedu Echeruo was an obscure name that only very few Nigerians knew till very recently rumors of Apple acquiring his startup Hopstop started to go round.
He grew up in Eastern Nigeria, and attended Kings College, Lagos, before going on to Syracuse University and subsequently the Harvard Business School.
He worked for several years with hedge funds, leverage finance groups and mergers and acquisition groups of J.P Morgan Chase, where he was involved in a broad range of financing, and private equity transactions.
Echeruo also worked at AM Investments Partners, a $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund.
He founded and raised nearly $8 million for his two startups, which are US-based internet companies – Hopstop, which Apple purchased for $1 billion and Tripology, which was acquired in 2010 by travel and navigation company Rand McNally.
Being the serial entrepreneur that he is, he is already on to another venture, this time focused on small businesses in Africa.

 

[EdJo]

Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American business executive. She is currently chairwoman of VEON, a senior advisor to Teneo, and will join the board of the beverage company Diageo on April 2, 2018, among other directorships such as Uber. In 2009, Burns became CEO of Xerox, making her both the first black woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company, and the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company. Burns served as Xerox CEO from 2009 to 2016 and Xerox chairwoman from 2010 to 2017. In 2014, Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world. Among other civic positions, she was a leader of the STEM program of the White House from 2009 to 2016, and head of the President's Export Council from 2015 until 2016.