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Shehla Pervin

Indian-American breast cancer specialist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2018
Entity authorityQ16734426
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Shehla Pervin is an Indian-American breast cancer specialist.

Biography

Pervin obtained her Ph.D. in molecular biology from Jadavpur University in India. She received postdoctoral position at the University of Kentucky and in 2009 was hired by Charles Drew University as an assistant professor. In 2011 she was a guest editor for the Current Pharma Design Journal where she published numerous works regarding her study on breast cancer. Currently she is chairwoman of Radiation Safety Committee and a member of Research Academic Senate. In January 2013 her group proved that vitamin D plays an important role in preventing risk of mammary and breast cancer.

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This entry incorporates text from Shehla Pervin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.