Wafik El-Deiry: I love it when colleagues walk up at ASCO meetings to tell me about their work
Wafik El-Deiry shared on LinkedIn:
“I love it when colleagues walk up at American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meetings to tell me about their work in the field. Networking is an important part of our career. The next generation at ASCO24 needs to move oncology to the next level of patient survival and quality of life.”
Source: Wafik El-Deiry/LinkedIn
Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP, FRSM, is the Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School and Director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University and Director of the Joint Program in Cancer Biology at Brown University and affiliated hospitals.
Dr. El-Deiry discovered p21(WAF1) as a p53 target gene, cell cycle inhibitor, and tumor suppressor that explained the mammalian cell stress response.
Dr. El-Deiry made important contributions in cell death signaling and our understanding of the sensitivity of tumors to chemotherapy. El-Deiry has more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and 5 edited books.
