Idriss M. Bennani-Baiti is an American epigeneticist and cancer specialist. He has made several contributions to the fields of molecular biology, functional genomics, and epigenetics such as the structure and function of Locus Control Regions (LCRs) and the mechanisms of long range enhancer-promoter communication. Bennani-Baiti has also made several contributions to basic and clinical cancer research including the role of epigenetic modifiers in cancer, the discovery of novel tumor, metastasis, and prognosis biomarkers, and the discovery and validation of cancer drug targets for personalized medicine. Bennani-Baiti is currently the editor-in-chief of the newly-established medical journals Cancer Epigenetics and Clinical Cancer Epigenetics. He is president of the Cancer Epigenetics Society.
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