LAGOS， July 20 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's senior national men's basketball team's long serving captain， Olumide Oyedeji， on Wednesday resigned from the D'Tigers.
Oyedeji， who announced his resignation on his twitter handle， bid his teammates farewell as they prepared for the Summer Rio Olympics in Brazil.
He cited personal reasons for his leaving the D'Tigers.
Oyedeji has served the nation for two decades， and captained the team that won the 2015 Africa Nations Basketball Cup in Tunisia， the first major trophy to be won by Nigeria in the sport.
He also captained the team to Nigeria's first basketball outing at the London 2012 Olympic Games where they were ousted in the first round.
His first major outing for Nigeria was in 1998 where he was in the team that represented the country in the World Cup in Greece.
He has played all over the world， including the U.S. NBA， Russia， China and others.
He has for years organized the annual Olumide Oyedeji Basketball Clinic for children of 12 to 18 years and awarded several scholarship to the best male and female participants at the clinic. Enditem
STOCKHOLM Women's Nike VaporMax Moc Flyknit Triple Black Australia , Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- China's cancer researcher Zhu Chen won The Sjoberg Prize 2018, together with French researchers Anne Dejean and Hugues de The, for the unique treatment that cures a once fatal cancer, announced The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday night.
According to a statement from the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the prize was awarded to them "for the clarification of molecular mechanisms and the development of a revolutionary treatment for acute promyelocytic leukaemia".
This year's Sjoberg Laureates have developed a new and targeted treatment for a specific form of blood cancer called acute promyelocytic leukaemia. It was once one of the deadliest forms of cancer Men's Nike Air VaporMax Grey White Australia , but it is now possible to cure nine out of ten patients who receive the new treatment, the release reads.
The treatment is unique because it is the first standard treatment for acute leukaemia that does not include chemotherapy. Instead, a combination treatment is used, which consists of a form of vitamin A, "all-trans retinoic acid" Women's Nike Air Max 270 Pink White Australia , also called ATRA, along with arsenic trioxide.
The idea of using arsenic comes from traditional medicine, but this method has been scientifically tested and proven in this form. The Laureates have made this revolutionary development possible by methodically mapping the molecular mechanisms responsible for the disease.
By identifying a specific genetic mutation and aiding the destruction of a faulty protein in specific cells, it was possible to stop the process that resulted in death for three out of four patients. This treatment means the cancer cells disappear because they lose the ability to renew themselves.
These discoveries have been made in stages since the 1980s, and the treatment's effects have been confirmed in numerous scientific studies. In many countries Men's Nike Air Max 270 Light Bone White Black Australia , this treatment combination is now the first choice of treatment for acute promyelocytic leukaemia.
The three Laureates remain very active in the field of cancer research. Anne Dejean now primarily dedicates her research to continuing her studies of liver cancer, and to investigating the significance of protein modification in how cancer develops.
Hugues de The is interested in the potential for producing treatment methods for cancer that combine stimulating the cancer cells' maturation and blocking their ability to renew themselves, while Zhu Chen is investigating genetic and molecular changes in other forms of leukaemia.
Zhu Chen was quoted by the release as saying that he was honored to share the prize, "which recognizes important contributions to cancer research", with Dr. de The and Dr. Dejean.
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The prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is funded by the Sjoberg Foundation. The foundation, with a donation of two billion Swedish krona (about 2.5 billion U.S. dollars), was founded in 2016 Men's Nike Air Max 270 Elemental Gold Black Australia , and serves to promote scientific research that focuses on cancer, health and the environment.
The Prize is an annual international prize in cancer research awarded to individual researchers or research groups. The prize amounts to one million U.S. dollars, of which 100,000 U.S. dollars is the prize sum and 900,000 U.S. dollars is funding for future research.
Laureates are expected to conduct the official Sjoberg Prize Lecture at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on April 12.
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