Wafik El-Deiry

Wafik El-Deiry is an associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is also a member of the University of Pennsylvania Comprehensive Cancer Center and Institute for Human Gene Therapy. He was formerly an assistant investigator in cell biology at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Dr El-Deiry is among the top 40 most-cited researchers of the 1990s, having authored 13 papers that have been cited over 6,000 times. His paper, "WAF1, a potential mediator of p53 tumor suppression", which has been cited over 5,000 times, is among the top 10 most-cited papers of the 1990s.