Dr. Saad J. Taj-Aldeen, MSc, PhD, University of Manchester, UK. I held or currently hold the following roles and positions: American Board in Medical Microbiology and Infectious disease, D(ABMM), Fellow of the Royal College of Biology, FRSB and Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologist, UK, FRCpath; Senior Clinical Scientist and Mycology, team leader at the Microbiology Division, Hamad Medical corporation, Qatar; member of the American Society of Microbiology, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, International Society of Human and Animal Mycology and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ESCMID); member of the Editorial board of Medical Mycology. My main research interests are clinical diagnostic mycology, blood stream infections and infections in immunocompromised patients. I have published more than 60 scientific papers in international referred journals. In addition, I have edited two chapters in two books. Two proposals of mine have been awarded by the Qatar Foundation (total fund = USD 1,450,000). I have presented research papers and participated in many international conferences giving oral and poster presentations.