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.

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