作者: Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa

Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa currently works, as a Professor/Principal Investigator, in the area of Cancer Biology & Metastasis at the College of Medicine, Qatar University, having previously been a project director at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI) and assistant professor in the Oncology Department of Mc Gill University (Montreal, Canada). Dr. Al Moustafa gained a Master’s degree and a Ph D in the field of Oncogenes in the Embryo from the Institute of Embryology of the CNRS and Collège de France and Paris XIII University in 1988 and 1992, respectively, and subsequently completed his training as a postdoctoral fellow at the LDI. He was responsible for founding the Middle-Eastern Association for Cancer Research in 2010 and the Association’s journal (Clinical Cancer Investigation) in 2011. He has published more than 70 international journal papers and book chapters. Dr. Al Moustafa’s research focuses especially on the roles of oncogenes, gene cooperation, and oncoviruses in human carcinogenesis and metastasis.