Dr. Sachdev Sidhu completed his BSc and PhD in Chemistry and Biochemistry at SFU. For his PhD thesis, completed in 1996 under the mentorship of Dr. Thor Borgford, he explored the determinants of functional specificity of bacterial serine proteases. He then went to the Department of Protein Engineering at Genentech, Inc. to complete postdoctoral training with Dr. James Wells. While he started his studies optimizing phage display technology, he went on to apply the technology to the development of synthetic antibody libraries that have since proven to be a rich source of valuable reagents for basic research and potential therapeutics. After 10 years as a scientist at Genentech, Dr. Sidhu was recruited to the University of Toronto where he continued expanding his studies with phage display technology and structure-based and combinatorial protein engineering. His research has been instrumental in improving technologies for therapeutic antibody development in cancer and other diseases.