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Salih J. Wakil is a renowned Iraqi businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of the Wakil Group, a conglomerate of companies in Iraq and the Middle East. He is also the founder of the Wakil Foundation, a charitable organization that provides educational and medical assistance to the people of Iraq. Wakil was born in Karbala, Iraq, and attended the University of Baghdad, where he earned a degree in economics. After graduating, he worked in the Iraqi Ministry of Finance and then in the private sector. In the early 1970s, he founded the Wakil Group, which has since grown to become one of the largest conglomerates in Iraq and the Middle East. Wakil is a major philanthropist, donating millions of dollars to various causes in Iraq and the Middle East. He has also been involved in numerous humanitarian projects, including the construction of schools, hospitals, and other infrastructure projects. Wakil is married and has four children. He is 92 years old.

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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 16 August 1927
Birthday 16 August
Birthplace Karbala, Iraq
Date of death (2019-07-11) Houston, Texas, US
Died Place Houston, Texas, US
Nationality Iraq

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2019

Wakil eventually left Duke in 1971 to become the Chairman of the Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry at Baylor College of Medicine upon being recruited by Michael E. DeBakey. In 1990, Wakil was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He stepped down as chair in 2006 but continued his work and mentorship until his death on July 11, 2019. In 2010, Wakil, Motonari Uesugi, and Lutfi Abu-Elheiga, founded FGH BioTech, Inc. to develop novel technology regulating fat and energy metabolism.

1967

While at Duke, Wakil identified individual enzymes forming the pathways for fatty acid synthesis in Escherichia coli. As a result of his "pioneering work in determining the structure and function of the enzymes which govern the synthesis of fatty acids in the body," he was the co-recipient of the 1967 American Chemical Society's Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry. Following this, Wakil was named the winner of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to study the biological function of membranes and the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund grant to study the body's production of fats.

1958

During his short tenure at UWM, Wakil conducted experiments that led to the finding that fatty acids are synthesized by a pathway distinct from the reverse of their oxidation. In 1958, he was the first to isolate the intermediate in the synthesis of long-chain fatty acids from acetic acid. His laboratory also discovered both Acetyl CoA Carboxylase and Fatty Acid Synthetase, the two key enzymes of fatty acid synthesis. Wakil eventually left UWM in the same year to join the biochemistry department at Duke University.

1927

Salih Jawad Wakil (Arabic: صالح جواد الوكيل; August 16, 1927 – July 11, 2019) was an American biochemist. Wakil's laboratory discovered both Acetyl CoA Carboxylase and Fatty Acid Synthetase.

Wakil was born on August 16, 1927, in Karbala, Iraq to a shoemaker. After scoring in the top 5 on the national baccalaureate exam of Iraq, Wakil earned a scholarship to the American University of Beirut. Upon graduating in 1948 with a degree in chemistry, he emigrated to the United States to earn his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Washington. Upon completing his PhD, Wakil became a research associate at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UWM), where his research into fatty acid metabolism began.