Dr Mustapha Aouida received his PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology in 2003 from both the Science University of Tunis and the Gustave Roussy Institute, Paris. For his post-doctoral fellowship, he joined Prof Ramotar at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Research Institute in Montreal, where he studied the mechanism by which yeast cells and mammalian cells become resistant to the anti-tumour drug bleomycin. Dr Aouida joined the College of Health and Life Sciences in April 2016 as a Lab Manager and is currently a Research Scientist at the college.