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NEW YORK, March 29, 2021—The Vilcek Foundation recognizes the research contributionsand work of Caltech professor Ibrahim Cissé in a news…

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Thanks, @NextEinsteinFor for sharing and celebrating @IbrahimCisse_! The @Caltech professor and director of @Cisse_lab is the recipient of a 2021 #VilcekPrize for Creative Promise in #BiomedicalScience. Check out our full profile on the biophysicist: http://vilcek.co/vfp2021ibrahimcisseto https://twitter.com/NextEinsteinFor/status/1380864782690091010

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“Scientific #KNOWLEDGE is not static. It is something that can be challenged and expanded with new #Discovery,” according to #NEF Fellow and Recipient of the 2021 @Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science, @IbrahimCisse_. Check out his inspirational story👇!

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