Dr. Saba Al Heialy joins MBRU from Alfaisal University (Riyadh, KSA) as an assistant professor of Immunology. Previously, she was a senior lecturer of physiology where she was involved in teaching at the college of medicine at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She also served as first year director in the college of medicine from 2014 to 2016. Dr. Al Heialy was involved in the supervision of MSc students in Molecular and Cell Biology.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry in 2008 from Universite du Quebec a Montreal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). In 2013, she obtained her PhD from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) from the department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine. Her thesis work focused on the role of T cells in allergic asthma. She trained at the Meakins-Christie laboratory, a leading research center in respiratory medicine under the supervision of Dr. James G. Martin. She was awarded many scholarships throughout her PhD including the James Hogg Award in 2012 for her work on nanotubes in T cells. Dr. Al Heialy’s research currently focuses on the bridge between innate and adaptive immune systems in acute lung injury.  Her main interests are T cells and their role in disease