I am a senior researcher with more than 20 years of experience in academic and research institutions in Lebanon, France and Qatar. I received a PhD in Toxicology and Pathology from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France. I also hold a doctorate degree in pharmacy (Pharm D) from the Lebanese University in Beirut, a M.Sc. in Biological and Medical Sciences from Claude Bernard University in Lyon and a M.Sc. in Toxicology from Paris V University. After my PhD, I was a post-doctoral researcher in genetic toxicology at the Pasteur Institute in Lille then a research associate at the cancer research center Nantes-Anger (France). In 2013, I joined the medical oncology department at NCCCR/HMC as a clinical scientist and laboratory manager then I was appointed as a research scientist at the Translational Cancer Research Facility (iTRI/HMC) and head of the flow cytometry core facility. My current work focuses on the characterization of the immune response in cancer patients treated with immunotherapy, in the identification of dynamic biomarkers of response and in the generation of antigen-specific/genetically modified T cells and NK cells for cancer therapy. I am also a certified CAR-T cells specialist and gene therapy expert. I have over 60 published manuscripts and I am a university lecturer of Cancer immunology and Toxicology in Lebanon and Qatar.