2Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit MI, 48201, USA
Biography
Dr. Asfar Azmi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan USA. He has more than a decade of experience in the area of small molecule drug development against important cancer targets such as Bcl-2, Mcl-1, nuclear exporter protein CRM1 and p21 activated kinase 4 (PAK4). Dr. Azmi’s work has led to the clinical translation of a number of cancer drugs such as CRM1 inhibitor Selinexor and recently the PAK4 inhibitor KPT-9274.