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Mona AlQazzaz

Community engagement scientific fellow and alliance manager
YCharOS and the Structural Genomics Consortium

Mona AlQazzaz is a community engagement scientific fellow and alliance manager at YCharOS and the Structural Genomics Consortium, an open-science effort to solve protein structures.

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