Wafik El-Deiry, MD PhD FACP

Greater Philadelphia Area United States

co-Program Leader in Molecular Therapeutics

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP, an American Cancer Society Professor, is Deputy Director & Program Leader at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Until Sept '14 he was the Rose Dunlap Professor of Medicine & Chief of Hematology/Oncology, Assoc Director for Translational Research at Penn State Univ. Cancer Inst. He earned MD & PhD degrees at Univ of Miami & completed medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital & oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. He discovered p21(WAF1) as a p53 target gene that explained the mammalian stress response. This is the most highly cited original work published in Cell. Dr. El-Deiry joined the Univ of Pennsylvania as Assistant Professor of Medicine & G...