Wafik El-Deiry, Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School, shared a post on X:
“Years ago we had such staunch supporters of cancer research in US Senators Ted Kennedy of MA and Arlen Specter of PA. Both were affected personally by cancer (Specter had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Kennedy had a GBM). I met Sen Specter once on visit with AACR to his office in DC.
I wrote about it it May, 2010 ‘Funding the marathon: Investigators need more than basic experiments and clinical trials to advance the war on cancer’.”
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Wafik S. 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.
He is the Editor in Chief at Oncotarget. 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’s research is focused on mechanisms of therapy resistance with major efforts in drug discovery and development.