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Apr 29, 2024, 11:18
Wafik S. El-Deiry: Honored and excited to get this in mail
Wafik S. El-Deiry shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Honored and excited to get this plaque and poster in the mail today.”
Source: Wafik S. El-Deiry/LinkedIn
Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP, FRSM, an American Cancer Society Research Professor, is the Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School and Director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University. Dr. El-Deiry discovered p21(WAF1) as a p53 target gene, cell cycle inhibitor, and tumor suppressor that explained the mammalian cell stress response. This has been the most highly cited original work published in Cell.