I am Dr. Mohamed-Zakaria Assani, MD and PhD candidate, currently working as a resident physician in Laboratory Medicine at the Clinical Hospital of Neuropsychiatry Craiova. I am also a Teaching Assistant in the Discipline of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova. I graduated in Medicine in 2024 with an average grade of 9.69/10 and am currently pursuing a PhD focused on inflammation and atherosclerosis in chronic kidney disease, alongside a master’s degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology. My research interests include diabetic nephropathy, cardiometabolic risk, oxidative stress, insulin resistance, and inflammatory biomarkers. I am particularly proud of my publications on atherogenic indices in diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory pathways in chronic kidney disease, and metabolic risk in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. In 2025, I received the "Marcela Zamfirescu Gheorghiu" Award for the best poster at the National Conference of the Romanian Association of Laboratory Medicine.