Expert Profile

Professor Chris Orvig

Professor

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
  • English
  • French

Chris Orvig

Email: orvig@chem.ubc.ca

Phone: 604-822-4449

Website: http://www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/orvig/index.shtm

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