Prof. Younes Zaid is Professor at the Materials, Nanotechnologies and Environment Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, and the Immunology and Biodiversity Laboratory, Department of Biology, Ain Chock Faculty of Sciences, Hassan II University, Casablanca. He earned an MS in Molecular Biology from the University of Hassan-II (Casablanca, Morocco) in 2009 and completed a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Montreal Heart Institute in Canada in 2015. He then worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Rosemont Hospital (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) from 2015 to 2016. He has received prestigious awards including the First Prize in Basic Research awarded by FRQS in 2012 and the Eberhard F. Mammen STH Most Popular Article Award for the ‘Open Access’ Category in 2022. He is especially interested in understanding platelet function and the mechanisms of platelet signaling.