Expert Profile
Professor Chris Orvig
Professor
Campus Location
Expertise
- Medicinal inorganic chemistry
- coordination chemistry of biological and medical relevance
- coordination chemistry of the early transition metals, the lanthanides, and the actinides
- main group bioinorganic chemistry (particularly group 13)
- role of metal ions in Alzheimer's Disease and other neurological dysfunctions
- metal complexes as nuclear medicine imaging and therapeutic agents, and as antitumour agents
- technetium and rhenium chemistry
- radiopharmaceutical chemistry
- vanadium compounds as anti-diabetic agents
- lanthanide coordination and bioinorganic chemistry
Interview Language(s)
- English
- French
Contact Information
Chris Orvig
Email: orvig@chem.ubc.ca
Phone: 604-822-4449
Website: http://www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/orvig/index.shtm
Alternate Contact
Alex Walls
UBC Media Relations
Tel: 604-319-8128
Email: alex.walls@ubc.ca