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Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 07:00 PM (PST) Speakers: Dr. Azra Raza (Cancer Specialist and Researcher) Dr. Samia Altaf (Public Health Specialist)   Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC PIDE)   Dr. Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York. Previously, she was the Chief of Hematology-Oncology and the Gladys Smith Martin Professor of Oncology at the University of Massachusetts. She is considered an international authority on pre-leukemia (MDS) and acute leukemia. Dr. Raza has published her original clinical and basic research comprising over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts in high profile journals like Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, Molecular Cell, Cancer Research, Blood, Leukemia. She has published >1000 abstracts, dozens of book chapters and edited a book devoted to MDS. She is a sought after speaker in scientific circles and the recipient of numerous awards including The Hope Award in Cancer Research 2012