Yasser Tabana, PhD, is a clinical chemistry fellow in the department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD at the University of Alberta, where he conducted multidisciplinary research in drug discovery and immunotherapy. He then pursued postdoctoral training in the department of biochemistry at the University of Alberta, working with a team to identify protein biomarkers for autoimmune diseases. He has authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications.