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Jean-pierre Issa

Jean-pierre Issa BS, MD

Internal Medicine and General Medicine, Oncology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Dr. Prof Jean-Pierre Issa is Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Prof Issa has a long-standing interest in basic and translational research in the field of molecular epigenetics. His research interests encompass epigenomics and genomics in normal, aging and cancer cells, including studies focussed on understanding basic epigenetic mechanisms as well as translational studies in cancer.< br/>
Prof Issa was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2003, and was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship in 2007 and the Rosenthal Award from the American Association for Cancer Research in 2011.
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