Diana Azzam, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, in Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work at Florida International University. She completed a B.S program in Chemistry from the Lebanese University in 2003, an M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2006, and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Miami, Florida, in 2012. After completing a post-doctoral training at Center for Therapeutic Innovation at University of Miami (2012-2016), she then moved as an assistant professor to FIU (2016-current). Her lab is focused on investigating metastatic and therapy-resistant cancer stem cells in triple-negative breast cancers and glioblastoma. She is recently interested in the role that TSPO plays in mediating glioblastoma progression. In addition, her lab is implementing functional precision medicine in pediatric oncology trials.